“progressive” is a relative term, depending on what the goal is. To the modern day progressive, it’s socialism. The trading of individual liberty for economic security, enforced by an all-powerful yet benign government. The last is the tricky part, since it’s a general rule that power corrupts. Insanity always emerges when socialism and communism are put into practice, because it simply cannot work in the real world, even after killing the millions of people who dissent.
Specifically, progressives care that government must be big, all powerful, and controlling. It drives their every move and you can see it in their every action. It's the only thing that is consistent. Progressives have fought for bigger government ever since before they first gained the presidency in 1901.