I think you oversimplify just a bit. the progressives pushed the amendments so they could get away with the imposition of massive federal power even outside of wartime. if they didn't need the amendments to do that, why bother?https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1009155195991937026 …
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yes. that's why I maintain that the progressive amendments were a fundamental change to the republic that had preceded them. maybe not quite as big of a transformation as either Lincoln or FDR, but still huge
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I think we're agreeing here - the progressives had defeated the second republic FDR came in and actually formed the third
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