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So what did I miss, since I am a conservative, but consider my self conservative in the sense that Teddy Roosevelt, or even Abrham Lincoln were conservative.

Has the progressive ,movement been hijacked by modern day liberals? or do I just not understand the movement?

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IME there’s certainly overlap with Liberalism, but with more willingness to compromise on big-government entitlement programs, and with more specific skepticism of corporate power and moneyed interests. The latter element, BTW, being very much in keeping with Roosevelt’s Progressive Party Platform, from 1912.

"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." - 1912 Progressive Party Platform, attributed to Theodore Roosevelt[1] and quoted again in his autobiography[2] where he connects Trusts and monopolies (sugar interests, Standard Oil, etc.) to Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft, and consequently both major political parties.

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