Very good post and dead-on accurate, RD.
Victor Davis Hanson is always asking that question: “Where is all this cultural destruction coming from?” He always traces it back to very liberal and insane universities. It’s all part of Cultural Marxism to destroy the USA from within. They are playing the long-game on this and we are now near the climax where civilization is either saved or totally destroyed. There are many bit players in all of this (think BLM, antifa, the useful idiots who marched, people with “Love Lives Here” virtue signaling signs on the lawn, etc) all working toward the same goal. Many are ignorant foot soldiers who cannot see the grand strategy to wipe out the USA as founded.
Conservatives have been trained to focus on the war of ideas.
I was there in my college and grad school years.
I was wrong.
The reality is that politics is about power.
Ideas are just propaganda tools for those who have power, want to keep power or want to get power.
That is why the lefties focus on large institutions of all kinds.
They want you ordered to obey.
They want you to obey because you are afraid not to obey.
This is about power—whether it is perverts, vaccines, insane foreign policy, illegal immigration, supporting criminals etc etc etc etc.
If you are weak and helpless they are strong.
All that matters is who has the power.