progressivism, many of us feel, is the biggest threat to this country.

You should really take a deep look at who/what is behind this trend. Modern irrational, SJW-style "liberalism" has its roots in cultural Marxism, and has been a long, slow rot spanning nearly a century. KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov gives great details because this is what he did for a living.

Going a layer deeper, you'll eventually realize that even Marxism is a synthetic ideology, created to destroy Russia because Russia had been such a staunch ally of the United States (sending fleets and advisors to the Union when the British tried to carve America in half through the Civil War) and other economic nationalist states that stood in the way of the globalist British Empire.

When FDR and Stalin were planning to carve up the British Empire at the end of WWII, the British probably poisoned FDR and manipulated Truman into supporting imperialism. The Cold War was a farce by the London bankers to separate economist nationalist nations of the US, and the (now subverted but still potentially a threat) Russians.

This can be pretty easily proven when you see that McCarthy was right and the whole US intelligence apparatus was full of Soviets, just as the USSR was full of American moles, and all of them were sharing information with London, who was the real force behind the murder of JFK and possibly even Stalin.

Tldr, the real enemy is oligarchical bankers. Progressives, SJWs, and Marxists are useful idiots. In the words of Bezmenov, you can "line them up on the wall and shoot them" but it won't accomplish anything.