American politicians are not progressive. America has not had a true progressive in decades. Today’s democrat policy has been overwhelmingly stagnant. Status quo plus a tiny tax cut for the working class.

The millions of Democrats who didn’t vote shows a rapidly growing apathy towards the party and their inaction

They don’t identify that way but most Americans are in favor of progressive policies when asked

That’s kind of a difficult thing to determine, when asked almost no one says they are, but if asked about policies, they tend to go for more progressive policies, even people that identify as conservatives will agree with more progressive policies. The people they vote for however, are definitely not progressive… Mostly, there are a few.

Then again, progressive in America is pretty much basic human rights and protecting vulnerable people which should be the minimum.

Exactly this. Americans don’t care about progress, they don’t even care about human rights. They care about the economy. Clinton was right, “it’s the economy stupid”.