I am a small p progressive. I think most of our evolution has come from progressives. Lincoln. FDR. Still, Democrats *are* responsible for some massive mistakes like Vietnam. That was Johnson. Yeah, Nixon made it even worse but he inherited something that was already stupid bad. But conservatives are responsible for our epic mistakes, the colossally big ones (although Vietnam was pretty big) and they have nothing on balance.
But I can't think of any conservative accomplishments and modern conservatives are just plain nuts. They have this mythology like winning the Cold War etc. Yawn. I thi