The only thing you need to know about the agenda of the American progressive left is this: EVERY MOTIVATION IS BASED ON A LIE.

1. America was never great – lie.
2. Europe is better than the USA – lie.
3. Price controls work – lie.
4. Gun control works – lie.
5. America is imperialistic, hegemonic and war mongering – lie.
6. Appeasement is a successful domestic and foreign policy – lie.
7. You can tax your way to prosperity – lie.
8. Poverty can be ended if we just take more money from the rich – lie.
9. Government stimulus programs stimulate – lie.
10. Free markets do not work – lie.
11. Campus rape culture exists – lie.
12. Obamacare was needed and it works – lies.
13. Confederate statues are racist – lie.
14. Contemporary white America is still responsible for slavery – lie.
15. Antifa is actually anti-fascist – lie.
16. Anthropogenic climate change – lie.
17. Can’t drill our way to more energy – lie.
18. Alternative energy sources are ready for prime time – lie.
19. Abortion only kills a lump of cells – lie.
20. The Iran deal stopped them from getting a nuke – lie.
21. 9/11 was an inside job – lie.
22. America brought 9/11 on itself – lie.
23. More people have been killed by right wing terrorists than Islamofascist terrorists – lie.
24. Terrorism can be ended with job fairs and a hug – lies.
25. Islam means peace – lie.
26. Cops are hunting young black men – lies.
27. Minorities can never be racist – lie.
28. All government programs yield positive results – lie.
29. Humans can pick their own gender and Bradley/Chelsea Manning is a woman – lies.
30. Homosexuals are exactly the same as heterosexuals – lie.
31. Trump colluded with Russia – lie.
32. The GOP wants to poison the environment and kill children and the elderly – lies.
33. Socialism works – lie.
34. Marxism works – lie.
35. Communism works – lie, lie, lie, damned lie.

Just a few off the top of my head. The point being, if an ideology is based on falsehoods, the inescapable and incontrovertible conclusion must be the ideology is also a falsehood.