The Progressive movement has been wildly successful? At what exactly? They have been wildly successful at centralizing government and increasing its power, and they have been successful at secularizing society.
Let me tell you how. At the turn of the 20th century, the progressives tried sneaking in a federal income tax, but it was struck down by the Supreme Court as Constitutional, so they simply added it a decade or so later. It is interesting that you brought up Prohibition, because that was one of the ways they got votes for the Federal Income tax to be added to the Constitution. Let me explain.
Alcoholism was wreaking havoc on society at that time. A good film to watch is the Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition to understand just how devastating alcoholism was back then, as it is now. In fact, alcohol is a drug that kills far more people today than any other drug. Most people don't realize it because it seems so harmless, probably because it is not only legal, it has been socially accepted as Ok. In fact, in high school and college if you don't drink people thinks there is something wrong with you. But what you probably did not know, was that alcohol sales were one of the primary ways the US Federal government was funded at that time. So Progressives who wished to fund the government with an income tax saw all of this and offered a solution to evangelicals They told them that alcohol needed to be banned to stop the ill effects on society, but at the same time, we need to replace the lost revenue. So if you support our federal income tax, we will support Prohibition, but we must first pass the federal income tax. So evangelicals went along with the scheme. They first passed the federal income tax to the Constitution, and then outlawed alcohol. However, there was no serious attempt to ban alcohol. If you watch the Ken Burns documentary you will see this. Bootleggers were even coming to the chambers of Congress to sell its members alcohol. Sure, there were token busts here and there, but they had no intention of ever continuing the ban on alcohol. So they simply let Prohibition fail, and reversed the ban. Then they once again used, not only the federal income tax to fund the government, but reinstated the tax revenue for alcohol. So essentially thy more than doubled the revenue to the federal government, which severely skewed the balance of power within Federalism, that is, state power verses the power of the federal government. That was the goal all along. Not only that, they then set up state liquor stores so that the state could sell alcohol directly to the public. But the cherry on the top was that they blamed the whole affair on Christians.
This is the type of diabolical mind Christians are faced with. The state had no real concern about the thousands that die from alcohol, much like they have no real concern about people dying from drugs like heroin at a clip of about 150 per day, which ends up being about as many dead in one year as who died for the entire Vietnam war. No, we only care about viruses it seems, but for other political schemes such as disrupting the term of a hated President.
You are also correct that evolution has been used by Progressives to dismiss the Christian faith which they disdain, but it is one of many tools. Why do they hate it so? It is because they hated the Constitution which put restrictions of centralize governmental power, which was their god. Presidents like Wilson hated the restrictions and regarded the Constitution as a document that prohibited them from "getting things done". So why attack Christianity to attack the Constitution? Ben Franklin aptly said that the Constitution will last only as long as the moral fiber of society will last to sustain it and that at some point they will all become corrupted, which will then lead to despotism. Let me put in another way, only moral men can be free. If you can't regulate your own moral conduct, then someone must do it for you. Put another way, if society has the moral fiber of a prison, all that can be done is build a wall around them and hire a warden because they will use their freedom to harm others. It would then be the only way to maintain a civil society. This is why Leftists are at war with the morality of society, whether they are aware of the powers that drive them or not.
The Constitution and the Bible have one thing in common, both are warnings and as both have their laws violated, there is no lightening bolt that comes down to correct them. No, that comes much later.