“progressives”. I guess that’s the new way to spell “socialists” now.
You can dress a rodent up in a wig and a dress but in the end it’s still nothing more than a rodent.
I describe it as a can of totalitarian communism,
wrapped in a label “socialism”
wrapped in a label “liberalism”
wrapped in a label “progressivism”
The label doesn’t change the contents, and people eventually come to associate the new label with the contents, so the label must again be changed to mask those contents.
This applies to any group that has changed its label over the years. The change of label is necessary because the previous label came to be derogatory because it referenced the contents of the character of that group.