If progressives fight against entrenched interests for the little people then what happens when government becomes the most powerful special interest?

Scott Walker asks in the land of LaFollette: Does siding instinctively with the most powerful interest in the land make you reactionary? After all in France reactionaries sided with the Ancien regime. 

And Scott Walker has the three straight wins and Republican legislative majorities to make the case that he's LaFolette 2. And the entrenched interests  are howling in their impotence.

What if the "Progressives" aren't really progressive?