SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE (RET): Embracing the term Progressive is appalling.

[T]hese leading Progressive architects weren’t reformers—they were arrogant, elitist, racists whose attitudes had shaped public policy... [T]hey supported forced sterilization and believed in socially engineering a master race. They despised Jews, Asians, Catholics, women and the disabled. They thought these groups were too stupid to vote and should be prevented from doing so. Their interpretation of Democracy was control of the masses by a small group of bureaucratic experts.

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