It was obscured by reverse propaganda. People running around screaming, “conspiracy theory” or *you're a homophobe, racist, antisemitic”. Not being able to exist outside the group-think. All by design
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=NoneDare
This was written nearly 40 years ago and very few took it seriously.
Fixating upon the immediate, temporary and personal IS by definition the Liberal mentality. Sucking Conservative voters into this con has been a established campaign of the DNC. Issue by issue or in a sweeping coup, Conservatives fell for it.... certainly enough of them fell for the con to matter, WHEN it mattered. The MSM of course, was indispensable in that effort.
How rational and objective Conservative voters could permit themselves to be duped like this is beyond me!!