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Different century, same disease. Always wanting to fix the ills of the world with government regulations, social pressure and money. Always willing to sacrifice individuals for programs, always going too far or not far enough and never understanding where it went wrong.

I wonder what will be the failures charged up to this season’s Progressives? Whose statues will they vandalize and remove? Will Gates, Bezos and Zuckerman be this century’s Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt? Will it be acknowledged that Progressives seem to repeat the same scenarios of declaring the rich to be an evil that need to be controlled while only snatching at the skirts of the modestly successful, holding them back from competing with the big players while the really rich donate to Progressive politicians to make sure they don’t suffer? Will huge fortunes be made again by milking the Progressive lawmakers for favorable policies like unrestrained immigration that feeds the money machines while making labor poorer and poorer? Will they achieve universal health coverage by making health care so burdened by regulations and limitations that it manages to kill more people than it ever has before? Will education become equal for all but equally bad?