I have a hrad time feeling for liberals that feel out-libbed by hyper-lib students. They dreamed of 1984, now they have to live it and are the adults being screened by the brainwashed kids.
In July 1936 the socialist & atheist government of Spain, dealing with an army coup, was hesitant to arm the communist & anarchist mobs because they would be unable to control them. They relented in the end because they had nobody else willing to fight against the army/police, and it worked out exactly as they had feared - they had a repressive Stalinist regime fighting against the army, and the elections that brought them to power wouldn’t be held again for decades.