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> In this light, it becomes apparent that the crisis crosses contested political boundaries (although it is admittedly progressives who currently have the upper
by majormajor 5y ago
> In this light, it becomes apparent that the crisis crosses contested political boundaries (although it is admittedly progressives who currently have the upper hand)
Is it? At least in the US, I'm not sure what progressive political victories compare with, say, the long-lasting effects of the Trump administration, especially in the judicial area. More broadly, many progressive causes have been getting weaker in US politics for decades. How many of the places that enacted strong rent control decades ago would be able to do so today, for instance, vs those where it's been weakened?
- huetius 5y agoFollowing the mod’s advice above, I would like to avoid taking this into traditional flame war territory. Perhaps we might agree that progressivism as a political movement has not succeeded in separating economic from social liberalism?
- ineedasername 5y agonot succeeded in separating economic from social liberalism At the same time that conservatism (in the US) evolved from being more focused on economic conservatism to a mixture, and sometimes a focus on, social conservatism.