The whole article is based on a false premise...
The “progressivism” that needed stopping was back in 1906...
It wasn’t...
The current problem has nothing to do with “progressive”, it has to do with the now completed loss of this nation to the Marxist communist wing...
As long as the serfs keep referring to things like progressives or the former democrat party (which no longer exists), there is no possible path to shedding the communist chains which now weigh us down...
Continuing to take lots of aspirin to get rid of the headache is of no value when the problem is a brain tumor...
I disagree. The movement to totalitarianism from Progressivism is natural and expected. It is the obvious result of placing more and more power in the hands of government, and removing more and more checks and balances on government power, which was a prominent goal of Progressivism.
I disagree that the current crop are "Marxists". More correctly they are Fascists, quite willing to allow the nominal ownership of big business to remain in private hands.
We lost this nation when the Ten Commandments were removed from the Town Square. There is no moral code to tether society, no values shared. Thus our Constitution, the tie that binds, is not valued either.