Is old-skool Progressivism dead?
Related question: I was trying to come up with a working definition of “progressivism.” I came up with this: progressivism is a political philosophy that holds that the government should use the law to promote what it identifies as social progress. Does that sound right? No, I don’t think so. The idea of using government power for social change is a relatively new one. The focus is mostly economic. Using the government to benefit the little guy. Countering the idea of keeping the government out of society and the economy, because that just ensures the big boys dominate. Hard to imagine what America was like a century ago. Unless you were rich (or a member of the small middle class), you got royally boned. Farmer, factory workers, whatever; the big boys raped you every day. Progressivism, whatever its faults, changed all that.
