A large part of the problem is the avalanche of people trying to co-opt the impetus of the 2010 tea party wave.
That wave can from a SINGLE ISSUE. Cut Government Spending.
The GOP then sprinted to the microphones to define the Tea Party as anti abortion, anti tax, anti gun control. The left wing largely did the same, defining the Tea Party to be extremists for guns and pro life and anti gay.
But the truth was (and likely still is) that it’s ONE ISSUE ONLY. Cut Government Spending. All other redefinitions have agendas, and it’s usually fundraising.
Cut government spending and all those other issues kinda fall in line as well.