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You need to define 'neocon.' I've asked many who used the term to define it, but have yet to encounter one who could. I asked one guy to define 'neocon' and his reply was that "It's the people you see on fox news." O-kay. Not a whole lot of precision there.
Wilson has been labeled as a progressive by most historians. I have looked around, and didn't find an instance where he labeled himself that, but certainly he was allied politically with the progressive movement of the time.
He was certainly a big government guy, but he didn't have the innate love for war and the destruction of lives that today's neoconservatives have, or that TR had. He didn't have the spine to stand up to the warmongers--a lot like Obama, actually.
All in all, though, he was a pretty bad president.
Theo. Roosevelt's party was the Progressive Party.
In a very broad sense, both of them can be identified with early-20th Century progressivism. But that is far from saying progressivism was named after Wilson.
Theo. Roosevelt's party was the Progressive Party.
In a very broad sense, both of them can be identified with early-20th Century progressivism. But that is far from saying progressivism was named after Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was consistently a central figure in the development of Progressivism and so of the Liberalism that dominated twentieth-century American public policy and political life.
Like any broad-based political movement progressivism had a variety of splinter groups. There is still a Conservative Party in NY state, which traces to the Buckley clan. If a Ted Cruz does not belong to the Conservative Party does that make him not a conservative?
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