Let’s just call a spade a spade, shall we?

Progressives = Neo-Comms (alt: neocomms, neocoms, neocommies).
Matters not that the spots are somewhat in different places than 50 years ago. “By their spots thou shall recognize them.”

They are competitive, though, participating in an un-aired game “Who wants to be Nomenclatura?” As Jay D. Rockefella would put it, “Ain’t a collective great?”