I am starting to think that going the third party route is the correct one for progressives. I also do normally like Kim Iverson.
With that being said, I do not agree with this video at all.
No, I do not want to compromise our agenda to work with Trump voters(unless you mean getting some to vote for candidates who are progressive across the board on all issues), I think that we can have a successful progressive movement without compromising our ideals. I don’t want anti-immigrant, socially conservative “progressives”.
I disagree that Teddy Roosevelt’s “Bull Moose” Party wasn’t successful. No, it didn’t win the presidency or congressional majorities, but it did succeed in getting it’s ideas out and it’s agenda was eventually passed when the New Deal was enacted. Teddy’s “Square Deal” was an earlier version of the New Deal and an inspiration of the New Deal. Not to mention that it did also shake up the electorate. Remember that the progressive movement started in the Republican Party and that they left the Republican Party and eventually joined the Democrats.
Finally, I disagree that the wars Teddy Roosevelt supported and was in were good. This was the bad aspect of Teddy Roosevelt. There have been humanitarian justifications for our modern wars as well “spreading democracy”. So what if we didn’t go into Iraq because of lobbying by oil industry or defense contractors, would it have made the Iraq War a good idea? No, it still would have been a horrible idea with the same disastrous results and not worth the cost. In fact, I would argue that they were much worse from a purely moral point of view, Teddy’s foreign policy(as well as the Spanish-American War in which he fought in) were literally based and fought on the idea of colonialism.
