“Every generation expands the circle. This one is ours.”
Defaults to openness, inclusion, and reform — but without the organisational urgency of activists. Believes progress is real, ongoing, and mostly settles in well.
Social progressives believe the moral arc does bend — slowly, and through debate, elections, and the law. Same-sex marriage, civil rights, women in public life: all were social progressive wins. They don't demand upheaval, but they expect each decade to be more inclusive than the last, and they vote accordingly.