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Title: George Will on progressivism
Post by: pjohns on November 23, 2013, 02:31:37 am

In July of 2011, on ABC's This Week, George Will made the following observation:

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[The US Constitution] has been [under seige] for a century. Woodrow Wilson, probably the rest of the progressive movement, set out to say, the Constitution was all very well once, but now we're a more complicated society with more grand ambitions for the government, and therefore what the founders did, which was to put the government on a short leash, has to be undone, we have to cut the leash on government. And that's what the progressive project has been through a century.

I believe this analysis is right on target.

Would anyone disagree?

Title: Re: George Will on progressivism
Post by: alicewonders on November 23, 2013, 03:22:54 am

I can't disagree.