True. Bad people hijacked it.
We’re the real progressives. Trump is a real progressive. But they stole the word “progressive” and we can’t get it back, any more than we can go back to using the color blue. Common usage just won’t change so abruptly. One day, though, we’ll regain the stolen words and colors. Once they are universally recognized as the real deplorables, and are tarred and feathered like the Duke and the King for doing the Royal Non-such scam one too many times. As they finally get rid out of town on a rail, we’ll celebrate in shades of blue.