I agree with virtually everything you say here. From my series on conservatism, you know we're on the same page there. I take no backseat in any repudiation of the raw evil of the Republican Party.

I agree also that right-wing pundits pounce on even slight problems with liberalism to gain tactical advantage. They did so with the so-called war on Christmas, for example. And because conservatives are so good at lying, since they're led by male psychopaths, they're effective in generating that propaganda.

I even agree that the problems with liberalism aren't as "orchestrated" or as deliberately malevolent as those of American conservatism.

But the fact remains that the liberals have given Republicans much to work with here. Wokeness is a cult. It went mainstream at around the same time as Trumpism, in 2015. The fact that the cults aren't equal in all respects doesn't mean there's no basis for comparison here.

Is Wokeness--what I'd call the toxically feminine version of the same consumerist infantilism that affects all Americans (and increasingly all postindustrial Westerners)--a minor thing? A mere shiny object or a fad? Is "woke political correctness" a vacuous Republican talking point? I don't think so.

But the main difference is that the Democratic politicians are centrist corporatists who marginalize their progressive base, whereas Trumpism has captured the Republican Party. That's a big difference, politically speaking. Yet culturally, there are left-wing and right-wing cults at work driving the mainstream discourse. The fact that Democrats don't know how to harness their base, whereas Republicans are now enthralled to theirs doesn't mean there's no mystery of how feminine and masculine cults rose to prominence at roughly the same time