Progressive partly refers to the slow change so no one will notice.
Jerks were not dumb.
>>Progressive partly refers to the slow change so no one will notice.
Yes it does. At the time, the fledgling communists (this was before 1917) were bomb-throwing radicals who called for change now at any cost. The American Progressives knew that this would not work in the US since the Civil War was still a first-hand memory for many people who were still alive.
So, they advocated progressive change. Their goal is the bloodless revolution (even though it isn’t any such thing as evidenced by their destruction of the black family and 50 million abortions).