Progressives think they are really good at fighting wars. That is the problem.
A core progressive belief is that international structures of management and arbitration would check and eventually end aggression between nations. As James Srodes notes in “On Dupont Circle,” a book about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their cadre of young reformers, they had unshakable “faith in the powers of experts to solve political issues.” And, of course, they saw themselves as the experts.
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