You know, the standard definition of progressive: trying to put things back the way they were, to make SF great again.

Yeah I generally think of tech workers as progressives and thought at first that this article was arguing that tech workers are nimbys. In my experience almost every tech worker I've met is a yimby and the nimbys are those who want to drive tech out of the city...

"Progressive" in SF == "f#$* you, I've got mine already".

SF progressives are people who work to maintain the status quo and make sure that change doesn't happen. SF progressives are people who would be called 'conservatives' in another context.

It's the standard way of referring to the 'opposition party' in local SF politics.

The capital class and environmentalist / preservationalist camps have heavy overlap in the Bay Area and use the latter brand to further their interests in the former.

If not furthering their capital, they will use their environmentalism clout to further their world view. It's a less visible but analogous dynamic to the Koch brothers using capital to shape the world after their vision.

Yes, they are people who think they are on the left, but are actually conservatives.