In contrast to older historians who regarded World War I as the destruction of progressive reform, Murray Rothbard was convinced that the war came to the United States as the “fulfillment,” the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life. He regarded progressivism as basically a movement on behalf of Big Government in all walks of the economy and
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Hate the war, celebrate the warriors.