Mr. Shaman
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Bullshit.Curious that Beck starts modern liberalism with Wilson, when the first progressive president in the modern sense is universally regarded as this guy: Theodore Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maybe he fudged TR because TR was a Republican. Hard to say.
In any case, the dearth of modern liberals prior to TR is only because modern liberalism couldn't exist except in an industrial economy. Liberalism in all cases is about defending the rights of ordinary people against the depredations of the wealthy elite, but in an agrarian-economy context different methods were called for to accomplish that, and so you could also say that the first progressive president was really this guy: Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. While Jefferson used different methods than Roosevelt, he was pursuing the same ends. He was a Democrat, too, so Beck has no partisan reasons to ignore him the way he does Roosevelt.
Jefferson saw gubmint as the worst potential oppressor the people could have....
Yeah.....sure....
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - THOMAS JEFFERSON