One of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most stalwart conservative voices is warning that progressive ideology is incompatible with America’s founding principles and poses an existential threat to the nation’s continued existence. Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the University of Texas Austin Law School on Wednesday, hailing the school’s upcoming program focused on civics and the history of Western civilization. “Your plans could not come at a more important moment for our nation when, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the very values announced in it have fallen out of favor,” Thomas told leaders, teachers, and students of the law school.
“As we meet today, it is unclear whether these principles will endure. At the beginning of the 20th century, a new set of first principles of government was introduced into the American mainstream,” Thomas said, recalling that President Woodrow Wilson, who was a “prominent proponent” of these principles, named them progressivism and derived them from a secular, European mode of governance. “Since Wilson’s presidency, progressivism has made many inroads into our system of government and our way of life. It has co-existed uneasily with the principles of the Declaration, because it is opposed to those principles.”
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