I do not disagree, yet I think the courts played a larger role.
The important elements to break down our society were found constitutional when they clearly were not.
Progressive income taxation, social security, the entire notion transfer payments, school prayer, abortion, quotas, welfare, etc the list goes on and was only possible with Leftist judges.
Yes, but only because if you throw enough stuff against the wall, sooner or later some of it sticks -- and that lays the foundation for more of it sticking.
When virtually every underpinning of our culture and society is challenged repeatedly in a courtroom, even if only a tiny fraction of the cases get decided in favor of the socialist agenda, sooner or later those tiny precedents becomes a foothold for more "socialist progress". Until, eventually it all sticks, whether the next judge is a socialist or not, his (or her) decision must be based on precedent or risk being overturned on appeal.