Raising the No True Scotsman fallacy here provides an "out" for anyone accused of hypocrisy. It "proves too much" if you will. To make no issue of someone call

Raising the No True Scotsman fallacy here provides an "out" for anyone accused of hypocrisy. It "proves too much" if you will. To make no issue of someone calling themselves "progressive" while not supporting the policies considered "progressive" is perfectly possible, but it basically shifts the conversation away from the topics at hand and pushes them one level of abstraction into the slippery nature of the way we use language. There is a substantive disagreement that could be addressed head on: What does the person calling themselves "progressive" believe that title mean? And why do they believe that the title applies to themselves?