ED DRISCOLL: Why is America Ignoring the Centennial of First World War? “It’s that last item that’s key — Wilson’s hardline stance against free speech was so virulent, it caused his fellow ‘Progressives’ to quickly rebrand themselves, even before he had left office, as ‘liberals.’ He’s the direct predecessor to much of Mr. Obama’s anti-free speech, anti-journalistic, anti-American, pro-racialist worldview. No wonder Wilson been airbrushed out of the left’s collective memories — with much American domestic history during World War I along with it.”