Progressivism, conservatism, and the nature of rights

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According to conservative political commentator, George Will, we who are progressives hold a political philosophy that is contrary to the founding principles of the United States. In his view, expressed in his book, The Conservative Sensibility, our nation is supposed to have a limited government whose only job is to protect the rights of individual citizens. Everything else is a deviation away…