re: #15 researchok

I’m not sure who you mean by “the progressive movement” since politics in the US has skewed so far to the right. If you applied the Tea Party’s standards, the real Reagan would be a RINO (despite the worship of the mythologized Reagan), and Nixon a radical Marxist. By any reasonable measure, President Obama is a centrist. The people to the left of the President who are disappointed in him haven’t had much power for the last few decades, while in contrast the lunatics are firmly in control of the GOP.