The seed for the Calhounians was the Democratic party, which formed in large part because they wanted to make sure that Slavery just wasn't talked about at the national level so it could continue unabated.Wait... the Progressive era in American politics really got started in the 1920s... the Calhounians originated in the 1820s... and the Wokists appear to be the rising ideology of the 2020s... I'm wondering if there's some larger pattern here and also if we should just abolish the 20s of any given century?
Progressives in the 1920's actually began largely as a result of Woodrow Wilson and his policies.
And the Wokesters defintely did not begin in the 20's. They were begun in the 00's and formalized in the teens.
Really, each successive faction/blight-on-liberty has grown out of the one before it.