The perfect response to progressives:

C.S. Lewis once said,

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

The entire article by Karen Karacsony is worth reading, but that quotation stood out for me.

There were plenty faults in the societies of the past that have been corrected, but progressives helped the world outdo the excesses of the past in mass murder, violence and destruction of freedoms, inventing totalitarianism on the theory that it was the only way to make their enlightened programs work. The smart ones were our founding fathers, and we need to return to their vision of limited government, freedom and property rights, while being true to the equality of mankind before the law and representative democracy.