Well, there you go, you've defined a large part of the progressive doctrine by your own words. The progressive doesn't believe that history is instructive, that "some old dude's opinion" is not gong to be supportive of analysing current events. If a progressive ever mentions history, its usually an distortion of past events, they steer away from even mentioning progressive thinkers of a bygone era, after all it might prove embarrassing to invoke some of those old crackpots.
The self important modern progressive believes that history begins with them and their opinion is the only thing that matters. It's pretty convenient when you want to regurgitate old failed ideas and present them as something new and shiny to those soft indoctrinated minds that are easily seduced. How else could so many progressive minded people be so seduced by failed socialistic policies? How else could these same people not be repulsed by the stated authoritarian bans and mandate policies of the Biden/Harris ticket? Shall I go on? Maybe straight down to the lowest rung of progressive hell these days? The rioting, destroying, burning, assaulting and killing Marxist Orcs perhaps? (I'm sorry to inform you, but you won't find a traditional conservative, libertarian or even a Christian among them, but you already realize that deep inside don't you?)
It's real convenient to claim that no one has repudiated the secular religion of Progressivism or even properly defined it when you pooh-pooh anybody in the past or present that has ever done so. It's progressive magic, ignore them, don't read or listen to what they've ever said and it's as if they never existed!
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