Martin O'Malley's Comprehensive, Progressive Trade Policy

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14. My FIL was a progressive conservative Republican (the "conservative"

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in GOP has not always been a given). He's been gone for a while now, but he was proud of voting for Truman, went home to the GOP to vote for Eisenhower -- who NOTABLY was quite progressive himself. He crossed the ballot again to vote for Johnson's progressivism and against Goldwater, then back for Nixon -- who NOTABLY also had many progressive policies.

So, on my FIL's behalf, you guys can't hijack HIS conservative progressivism either. As I explained, these terms have long-established meanings.

As for our Democratic Party candidates, OF COURSE they're all progressive. There almost is no such thing as a nonprogressive Democrat; I'm not sure what that would even be. In any case, how progressive is a matter of degree. Calling a democratic socialist progressive would be very redundant, of course, but Bernie is progressive strictly speaking.

So, you see, you can call legitimately yourself a strongly progressive whateveryouconsideryourself, as opposed to moderately or radically progressive, or socialist.

As for those who follow Bernie, they should just identify themselves as progressive democratic socialists. Again, the "progressive " would be redundant, but they seem to like the term and nobody'd care. After all, isn't it time his followers stood up proudly for what they support? He does.