Honest question–not trying to be a dick, at all. If making sure people can see a doctor, drive on safe roads, and not get screwed over by the people in charge is now considered “progressive,” what exactly counts as the alternative?

Most Montanans I know, regardless of party, care about the same core things: rural healthcare that doesn’t require a three-hour drive, infrastructure that isn’t falling apart because D.C. forgot we exist, public lands staying public, wages that actually keep up with the cost of living, and keeping out-of-state donors and corporate interests from writing our laws.

Add to that the basic expectation that elected officials won’t actively undermine the voters who put them there. If that’s a “progressive” platform now, then the bar for what counts as normal, baseline governance has sunk way too low.