I agree with the first answer, but I think that a full
answer to the question needs to include the differences between Roosevelt's New
Nationalism and Wilson's New Federalism.
Both candidates
wanted the basic progressive goal of taking power from the rich and the big companies
and giving it to the middle classes. But the two of them disagreed on the proper way to
do this.
TR believed that big business was a permanent
thing and so there needed to be big government to regulate it. Wilson believed that big
government should exist only for as long as it took to break big business and create an
economic system that emphasized smaller businesses.
This
shows that there were at least a couple of different ways to pursue Progressive
goals.
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