Many look at the Progressive movement as totally negative, but the question is can we do not have some type of progress in the Many folks take the word progressive as a negative meaning but let us understand that we constantly need progress and originally that is what the work was to mean. But what happen the left in the U.S. carried progressiveness to the extent that it became a word that meant charily by many on the right. So they started to associate it with liberalism. So now many think progressiveness is liberal.
Read my book The History of the Progressive Movement in the U.S. to see where it is headed.