I think we are using the same word "progressive", but have a different definition. When I say "progressive", I mean someone who believes history marches forward to a destination. "God" to such a progressive could be "The Eyes of History", that is, an imagined future where people look back and judge them, to see if they were on "the right side of history". Such progressives believe they have Gnosis, some type of knowledge that grants them insight into how the world should be, and that the world should be transformed to match this vision, not incrementally changed to what is good.

The "progressive" label stems from the vision that they have foreknown vision of what the world should look like and they want to transform the world to look like that.

This type of progressive isn't held back from apparent failures. The response to a failure by a progressive, is "It failed because you weren't doing it right" (that wasn't real communism) or "It failed because you weren't doing enough of it" (you only spent 2% of revenue on DEI training, we need to commit more to the goal of equity, an administered council dedicated to force equal outcomes).