A***sow's ear*** by any other name is still a sow's ear, right?
They're Cultural Marxists whether they call themselves liberals or progressives or Trotskyites.
FWIW, “progressive” was the in word for Communists/Socialists from the late 19th century through the 1930s. Then, when it became too closely identified with the Soviet Union, they dropped the word and turned to “liberal” instead.
Now that “liberal” has been worn out, they are reviving the word “progressive,” with the history of which most people aren’t that familiar.
It’s the usual leftist Orwellian policy of inserting new words—euphemisms—when the meaning of the old ones become too well understood and rightly hated.