Just de-lurking to provide some context to the current debate over right-wing progressivism. Quote Jason Pye at the Liberty Papers:

The second is that Goldberg’s point about what “right-wing progressivism” and Mike Huckabee is right on target. The idea that government should shape and mold the type of society that we should live in pretty much defines the progressive era.

Newt Gingrich, late 1981 or early 1982, in a working paper called "Phase II of the Reagan Revolution." From his library; I'm not sure if this is available publicly online.

We can't govern a society by just allowing it to emerge--we must shape the society or someone else will shape it.

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The conservative view is that government does shape society, and we should shape it in our direction.

There was a lot of talk about Gingrich running for the Presidency a while back. That seems to have fizzled out, but like Al Gore with Howard Dean in 2004, is Gingrich waiting in the wings to make a late endorsement to boost his public image? And if so, is Huckabee the most likely choice?