Unmaking the Leviathan Part II: The Long Betrayal: How Progressives Undermined the Founders
This didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered.
At the turn of the 20th century, a new breed of American intellectuals and politicians—Progressives like Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Croly—openly rejected the Constitution. They saw it as outdated, naive, and dangerously tied to the idea that rights come from a Creator and not the S…