Progressives created alternate facts and have bee using them to beat on conservatives for forty plus years, or maybe they don’t like it when the postmodern and deconstruction theories of Derrida Foucault, Chomsky, Lyotard et al come back to bite them and their ideas.
In postmodernity, facts are relative and illusory.
The postmoderns are disillusioned and are now totally lost. Their worldview based on the science of modernism has been destroyed. Their religion of science has failed them. So they have cognitive dissonance in their worldview.
Their education system has failed them. Their education system had told them that their modern religion of science was the truth. But now they know that science has failed, that “the truth” as they want to see it is not as they see it. Kurt Godel had pointed this out, quantum physics has pointed this out, and Einstein pointed this out.
Everything now points, again, to the one truth, the way and the life. They are rejecting this one truth.
So where do all the snowflakes go? They are melting. As they melt they are attacking outward. They have no place to go but to attack. This is all they have left.
It will be interesting to see what happens next.