InfoGrenades / Fun Fact: The 'progressive' political movement started in the Second Reich!

In a short clip (from a slightly longer clip of a longer speech full of bits of forgotten history), Clarence Thomas reminds us that Woodrow Wilson’s progressive movement was modeled after Von Bismarck’s Germany. (Woodrow Wilson was fulla all kinds of bad ideas.) Remember, the order of the Reichs:

Therefore, it follows, that the ‘progressive movement’ of today is in-fact modeled after the Second Reich. How many ‘progressives’ know this?🤔

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Infogrenade date: 2026-04-29 11:45:40 +0000 UTC

Post updated: 2026-04-29 11:45:40 +0000 UTC