Wa Examiner-
The roots of this nation’s Progressive Movement were racist, repressive, dismissive of the First Amendment and other civil liberties, and hostile to women’s rights to vote or to petition elected officials.
Those are key takeaways, some of them relevant to this year’s election, from a Pulitzer Prize-worthy new history about former President Woodrow Wilson, whose presidency was the apotheosis of the early Progressive Movement’s fierce ambitions. Written by Christopher Cox, a former congressman who served as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2005 to 2009, the book is elegantly written and monumentally impressive in its research.
While Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, which will be published on Nov. 5, is in some ways a biography, it is less a whole-of-life account than it is a history of Wilson’s racism and even more of his disdainful opposition to women’s suffrage. The stories Cox compiles of the abuse of suffragists are nauseating. read more
…I put this out there earlier today, in a different context…
“Wilson acted as if the congressional declaration of war against Germany was also a declaration of war against the Constitution. Harvard professor Irving Babbitt commented in 1924: “Wilson, in the pursuit of his scheme for world service, was led to make light of the constitutional checks on his authority and to reach out almost automatically for unlimited power.” Wilson even urged Congress to set up detention camps to quarantine “alien enemies.”
Wilson unleashed ruthless censorship of any criticism. Anyone who spoke publicly against military conscription was likely to get slammed with federal espionage or sedition charges. Possessing a pamphlet entitled Long Live the Constitution of the United States earned six months in jail for a Pennsylvania malcontent. Censorship was buttressed by fanatic propaganda campaigns led by the Committee on Public Information, a federal agency whose shameless motto was “faith in democracy… faith in fact.””
https://coldfury.com/2024/10/26/worst-president-evar/
…censorship, jailing people who only want their rights, arrogating powers to themselves they have no right to, demonizing people by groups while breaking the law themselves…seems like the devil always repeats, nicht wahr?
…no wonder they want to erase history…
Upon taking office Wilson had EVERY African-American working in the US Postal service fired.
Woody Wilson was quite the racist wasn’t he.
The current regime is pretty darn close to Wilson’s tactics.
Today’s Suffragettes are the J6 prisoners and the censorship, etc follow along the same playbook as Wilson.
We just watched the 1916 Project and the Planned Parenthood ghouls are no different today either.
All progressive plans intertwined.
My great uncle Oliver was Woodrow Wilson’s chauffer.
https://youtu.be/ZIzOvLLKR9w?si=KIgUtcqy-LFcfG6o
Too bad Wilson was despicable.
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T. Woodhead Wilson. The left still idolizes him. They call what he did Wilsonian Democracy.
When he caughed up his Fourteen Points, France’s President Clemenceau remarked: “God Himself has only Twelve”. Hah!
Wilson repotedly fired all the black people who worked in the Federal government when he assumed office in 1912.
What a progressive. But he really was one, you know. Progressives have such a wonderful record of hate and brutality.
What really pissed me off about the Madison Square Garden bullshit last weekend is that Wilson and the Democrats had their nominating convention in that building and participants were wearing their Klan robes. The same Klan who Democrats elevated to leadership in their Party just a few years ago and Biden eulogized
Wilson is one of Hillary’s role models, along with Margaret Sanger. Go figure.
Did Woodrow Wilson ever smile, it looks like he had a perpetual holier than thou scowl looking down on everybody and everything that he didn’t approve of. Or maybe he was just constipated.
@geoff — Both.
I just did an image search and out of the first hundred plus photos four showed him smiling. Three were him winning an election, the fourth was him throwing the first pitch in a baseball game. I think Edith ordered him to smile for that one.
He was a despicable man and a terrible president.
Being a true democrat he also segregated the military, supported the KKK and promoted the “Democracy” as apposed to the “Republic”. His wife took over as he was mentally infirm in his last years, similar to what happening now. May he rot in hell.
Wilson’s smile revealed a few missing/broken/black teeth. Black like his soul.
Don’t forget he was a college president, extreme leftist, a vicious tyrant and simply stated, total asshole.
They really hated the negros too. Like, really a lot. Just like the modern version of the scum do.