The fact is the greatest liberal of the Wilson era was Robert LaFollette, who opposed WWI, and much of the other crap the author of this thread is trying to pass off as liberalism.
So glad you brought up Republican LaFollette.....who hated the racist Democrats!
While LaFollette was not at home with the businessman-politician that was coming to dominate the Republican Party,
he could not abide the Democrats, whose stronghold was the South, where they now engaged in depriving black citizens of the right to vote.
African-Americans would have progressed beyond the new immigrants, LaFollette declared, if they had been fairly treated, if they had received kindly recognition, if they had been given the opportunity to make homes for themselves, if their labor had been properly rewarded.
David P. Thelen, Robert LaFollette and the Insurgent Spirit, p. 10-11.
Once again the evil, atavistic history of the Democrat Party is revealed!
LaFollette formed the Progressive Party in 1924.....well after Wilson's presidency.