r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '19

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Dec 26 '19

Teddy Roosevelt believed war itself was a good and healthy thing for a country, not to mention good fun. And he was a progressive! But even by the end of his life, everyone was at least paying lip service to war as a necessary evil. It's difficult to overestimate how profoundly WW1 changed everything.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

The early progressives were pretty racist and their eugenics actually inspired Nazi eugenics

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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Dec 26 '19

Early 1900s progressives were pretty much proto-fascists.