You pasted in the wrong link by mistake, Mr. Smith (it goes to healthcommunities.com on athritis.) You should be able to easily edit to correct it now because I have commented on the post, see the edit tab at the top.

Not really a fan of modern progressives and not even of Obama but still could not finish reading that piece of ... umm agitprop.

In the less than 1/3 that  I read, the only thing I read that he got right was the bit about self-styled progressives abandoning the liberal label. What he got wrong is their economic orientation. If they were truly economically progressive, they would never have accepted Obamacare  the ACA, which is nothing more than a rehash of Romneycare and the 1994 plan proposed by the Heritage Foundation, true descendants of Trotskyism. It is simply more corporate welfare disguised as social welfare.

Where progressives fail economically is in believing that New Deal policies were final answers rather than steps along the way to a new economic synthesis and one that adapts to changes when circumstances change. That is certainly not progressive, it's conservative.

Where they fail politically is not countering outrageous proposals from the other side to float some of their own that will appeal economic liberals even those that are social conservatives aka the poor. Economic progress precedes social progress, not the other way round.