I don't buy it. The Left has been on the attack on all fronts - socially, culturally, politically, etc... for years. Everytime you turn around WE are the ones reacting to THEM.
But maybe I just see it differently.
I am seeing just like you. They're tooting their horns because we're fighting an organized retreat in which we've had a few tactical victories mainly because so much of what the left proposes is bizarre and utopian.
Why are we called reactionaries, rhetorically at least?