Progressive Party (Dräggel's Multiparty USA)

The Progressive Party is the main left-wing party in the modern United States and second main left-of-center party following the Labor Party. It's program focuses on the furthering of minority rights, economic and welfare programs that primarily help the poor and environmentalist programs. It's main policies are anti-trust regulation, Medicare for All, The Green New Deal, Universal Free School Lunch, Free College and Student Debt elimination.

Beginning
The Progressive party was founded by Theodore Roosevelt after he narrowly the Labor party nomination in 1900 over differences between his often described as progressive-conservative views and the Party's more orthodox social-democratic and then-socialist beliefs. After getting 12,4% of the vote and 53 house seats, he managed to enter the government with the Labor party and influence it's governing agenda. This also founded the party as a more idiosyncratic party relative to the Labor party. In 1904 he won the presidency

Great Depression and World War 2
During the Great Depression the party became modestly more popular and was an instrumental part of composing Roosevelt's New Deal program based on Teddy's Square Deal. Following the 1936 election the party flipped from Teddy's imperialism and intervationist policies to an isolationist position over fears of losing their northern and heavily German and Scandinavian-American voters to the America First Party.

Cold War and Civil Rights Era
After the end of WW2, the Progressive party chose to accomodate the declining Socialist Party and establisghed itself as the decidedly more left-leaning of the 2 left parties. In the 1960s, the party became the center of the New Left political movement. It's foreign policy shifted from isolationism to a more general belief in self-determination and protesting against the right's interventionist foreign policy.