Youtube video I made about how Glenn Beck got wrong what the progressive movement was about when it began in the late 1800's

 During a guided tour of his traveling history museum, Glenn Beck makes an unwarranted association between the US Progressive movement, that began in the late 1800's and continued on until the US entered the first World War, and the eugenics movement of that same time period. The Progressive Movement back then was simply promoting socioeconomic reforms needed to measure the power of the plutocrats and crony capitalism of that time. There was nothing in the Progressive movement and its most prominent and powerful member, Teddy Roosevelt, having to do with promoting eugenics. Teddy Roosevelt worked to help the working conditions for all workers, regardless of their race, and he would bust up monopolies regardless of the race of the owners of those monopolies.

Also, Beck goes on about Woodrow Wilson's eugenicist ideology, but without providing any evidence he was ever part of the Progressive Movement. Instead, Wilson was the political opponent to the progressive Teddy Roosevelt in the 1912 Presidential election.

https://youtu.be/O8asHeozunY