By Paul G. Kengor
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily.
Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.”
Otherwise, they should be celebrating right now. In fact, President
Obama and fellow modern progressives/liberals should have been ecstatic
all this year, rejoicing over the centenary of something so fundamental
to their ideology, to their core goals of government, to their sense of
economic and social justice—to what Obama once called “redistributive
change.”
And what is this celebratory thing to the progressive mind?