What does it mean to be a Progressive? What to Conservatives stand for? Beau of the Fifth Column provides insights into what it means to be a Progressive today, and why Conservatives, by definition, have no new ideas.
POINTS
- In the 1860s, the Republicans were the Progressive Party. That is not the case anymore.
- Conservatives have always been the resistance to progress. Eventually, the gains that Progressives make become the new status quo and the new identity of conservatism.
- Progressives, like Abraham Lincoln, upset the status quo.
- The goals will change over time, but the same two groups of people, Progressives and Conservatives, will always be at odds with each other.