The challenges are always different. It’s the sought-after solutions which decide whether or not one is guilty or not.
I’m not giving progressives the benefit of the doubt. I would’ve done so over a decade ago before I really started digging into their works. But I’ve yet to find a progressive who wasn’t plotting and scheming more than they let on and engaged in _some kind_ of deception.
Trust me when I say this, this has been going on LONG before progressivism. In fact, Voltaire, Diderot, and D’Alembert (to say little about Rousseau, who is actually an angel compared to those guys) pretty much did progressivism’s “plotting and scheming more than they let on and engaged in _some kind_ of deception” long before progressivism was such a thing, as Barruel can attest to in this book:
https://archive.org/details/BarruelMemoirsIllustratingTheHistoryOfJacobinism
Heck, even Thomas Jefferson did that with the Jacobins and siding with them while conveniently leaving out the fact that they outright BUTCHERED the Bastille guards and paraded on the streets with their severed limbs in mob elation despite most likely bearing witness to it while on site at Paris at the time, claimed all this time that the Jacobins were like the Minutemen when they were not (in fact, to compare the Jacobins to the Minutemen, who actually DID give the Brits a fair trial over the Boston Massacre DESPITE John Adams having a lot of reasons to hate the British instead of lynching them then and there, is an ultimate INSULT to the work of the American Minutemen, and that particular thing Jefferson should have been fully aware of, that we didn’t do mob lynchings, certainly not encourage them).