Modern progressives don't like to refer to their long-held support of eugenics. In fact, American progressives influenced the Nazis, who launched their own murderous eugenics schemes.
Donavan Lingerfelt
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Donavan Lingerfelt graduated from Georgia College & State University in 2022 with a bachelors in economics and now is pursuing a masters degree in economics from George Mason University. He enjoys writing about economics and various other topics from a libertarian perspective on his Substack, Econ Ecstasy. His economic research interests include public choice, Austrian economics, and foreign policy.
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The drug war of the last half century has incarcerated millions and created havoc. What it hasn't done is eliminate people using drugs without government permission.
During the progressive era, academia hastily adopted the inhumane pseudoscience of eugenics, and its results on the world were devastating. The influence of the Boston Brahmins in New England can...
