Are We Ending the Progressive Era?

This feels like to me very much the progressive movement, not progressive as we use it now. The idea that if we just put all the experts in charge of government will all be better off. That felt a little bit like what the journalism industry as a whole seemed to be pretty on board with during COVID. And I wonder if now that a lot of that has been undermined and frankly expertise has been undermined. Whether it's FBI or public health or anything else, are we ending the progressive era? Those are your two questions.