Well, I hardly see MAGA supporters as "ordinary," if America's "better angels" are held as the standards. Republicans pushed the center further to the right, due to Clintonian triangulation, so the US cultural norms now are grotesque, according to the humanistic terms that set the modern agenda.

My concern here is with a feeble form of hyper-liberalism that has no chance of defeating the evil of right-wing American authoritarianism. One side has become psychopathic, the other infantile. Which side would you pick as the likely victor in a battle, a psychopath or an infant? Gen Z-style progressives have to get tougher, stop agonizing over trivialities, and relearn liberalism and humanism.