The expression used to be that a conservative was a liberal who has been mugged.
These days the liberals are too stupid to learn—so we just have to let the crime beating continue until morale improves!
Progs are different from New Deal era liberals. They want to be robbed & disabused of their privilege because it’s a form of social justice. And the want this to be the continual experience of every citizen, too. Their only annoyance is at the inconvenience.