@Adam_Cadmon1
Since rejecting binaries is my hobby*:
It’s both. What we’re living through is a reshuffling, concentration, and consolidation of those factions, both politically and geographically.
On •average•, overall trajectory of my lifetime is progressive, no doubt about it.
However:
(1) Regressive faction is increasingly so.
(2) Geographic consolidation means anti-democratic forces (EC, gerrymandering, suppression, etc.) give increasing power to the shrinking regressive faction.