Communists infiltrated government schools, MSM, colleges and the Democrat Party decades ago. None of this leftist stuff just happened suddenly, it was organically grown.
The ideas which led to the clash of individualism vs. collectivism in America were imported from Germany by intellectuals in our universities over a century ago.
Ideas move the world, slowly. To save this country requires an ideological change in the philosophy departments of our best colleges. But those departments won’t hire philosophers who believe ideas even matter. That’s how rotted the system is. Rotted to the root.