Progressives can simply look evil, because they’re so crazed. But there’s a whole theory of the world behind their views. Otherwise they wouldn’t be developing so uniformly or be so strong among formally educated people.
They believe in truth and righteousness. But it’s the “larger truth” that reflects necessary context: how bad and utterly disqualifying it is to stand in the way of obvious justice. It follows that whatever they do to you is justified.
It’s insanity more than evil, I think. They don’t live in the same world as normal people. The problem is that their politics is their religion, their final standard for reality, and it tells them reality is whatever people construct as such. That’s why “progressive fake news” is a contradiction, whatever advances progressivism is true and justified, and “misgendering” (for example) is at bottom the same as murder.