> Prohibition was a “conservative” movement This makes no sense, by definition it was a progressive movement at the time: for as long as we know, people drank

> Prohibition was a “conservative” movement This makes no sense, by definition it was a progressive movement at the time: for as long as we know, people drank alcohol, and then you get these progressive people (many of them women) trying to change the society for the better. It was a failed progressive policy, that if it stuck we would have seen it as a good thing in retrospect and call it progressive - just like banning opium in cough medicine. Conservative means keeping the old way, in this case: keep drinking alcohol freely.