Nope. Still progressive propaganda. Look at the actual government he supported. It bears not the slightest resemblance to an enormous administrative state with cradle-to-grave welfare, a thicket of mandates, etc. And slavery itself required a big, intrusive government.
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Jefferson Davis' wartime government was https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/the-confederate-roots-of-the-administrative-state/ … So were Marx & other radicals who were mostly out of power. So were totalitarians like Francisco Solano Lopez. The real shift, though, starts with Bismarck.
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Sumner was less of a pure small-government classical liberal than others in the party, and less of a fusionist with the early GOP's more traditional conservatives than, say, Lincoln. But retconning him into a prog is just willful parroting of left-wing propaganda.
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In the sense of having ideas the progs reject root & branch. Sorry, go sell Kevin Kruse's nonsense elsewhere.
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Skepticism of Christianity, a predilection toward scientism, a denial of traditional moral suppositions... that’s not Kruse, that’s Paine and Jefferson.
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Paine actually was a precursor of today's Left. Jefferson was rather more complicated, given his tendency to be on multiple sides of so many questions. I do think Jefferson would be a Democrat if he was alive today.
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Yes, and Paine is widely regarded as a “classical liberal.” Progressivism is just classical liberalism with more government force.
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Paine was much more than that. He was carried away by the illiberal French Revolution.
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So was the (first) Republican Party until Bonaparte became First Consul.
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