timg56,
My comment was “’Historians’ by the way are among the most uniformly progressive tribes in our society. ”
Most uniformly, not completely uniformly.
Also, the fact that you majored in history does not make you a historian. And if you are a historian, ie. you are a professor/instructor of history, or publish historical research, and you are not a progressive, all I can say is congratulations. You are in a very small minority. Though that minority does exist, as I noted in my comment.
Don’t blame me for characterizing historians as overwhelmingly progressive, blame the historians who answer poll questions.
Here is just one example. A poll of historians regarding their opinions of who the best presidents were:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/historians-obama-better-than-reagan/sienna-presidents-2010-top-ten/
Eisenhower, a moderate/progressive Republican made the bottom ranks of the list a couple times. But the only genuine conservative is Abraham Lincoln. (Who, by the way, historians are currently trying to deconstruct as a progressive.)
I would claim Washington as a conservative, since he resisted the efforts to centralize power in himself as king, but I am loathe to politicize our greatest president ever. He may be the only historical figure who genuinely transcends party. Historians rank him fourth, which tells you more about them than about him.