Progressives want to use the government to improve the lives of all Americans, including those who routinely vote against them. They believe in liberal democracy, accept the constraints inherent in the system, and take a half loaf when it is the best they can expect. The far right, on the other hand, increasingly rejects liberal democracy, rejects any sort of compromise, and sees government as a tool to punish the left, not as a force for good for all Americans. Its adherents want to burn it down, create chaos, and impose authoritarian rule on the rest of us.
It’s not the same thing at all.