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These debates over social policy were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the [[Vermont]] legislature.
These debates over social policy were reflected in the 2005 campaign for Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]], which [[Howard Dean]] won. As a progressive, Dean was the first to shepherd civil unions through the [[Vermont]] legislature.
====Progressive police state===
====Progressive police state====
Progressives accused liberals who voted for the [[Iraq War]] and the [[Patriot Act]] of betraying the cause of [[socialism]]. Ironically, it was progressives in the [[Obama administration]] who used provisions of the Patriot Act that allowed for spying on domestic groups sympathetic to [[Al Qaeda]], and applied them to the Trump campaign from 2015 on to further the anti-democratic objective of single party control.
Progressives accused liberals who voted for the [[Iraq War]] and the [[Patriot Act]] of betraying the cause of [[socialism]]. Ironically, it was progressives in the [[Obama administration]] who used provisions of the Patriot Act that allowed for spying on domestic groups sympathetic to [[Al Qaeda]], and applied them to the Trump campaign from 2015 on to further the anti-democratic objective of single party control.