By and large conservatives far more than liberals treat the culture wars as a detached phenomenon. The vast majority limit their politics to voting, the few that go beyond that tend to do so in an explicit and limited fashion. Limbaugh runs a political talk show talking about the Presidential election. A conservative blogger will start a political youtube channel talking about policies. Leftists on the other hand understand, correctly imo, to fight the battle on all fronts. Not only are there more activist liberals their strategy is more diverse. The good lib doesn’t just do outright ‘political’ things, they work their way up in the local school board inserting their ideology every step of the way. They pioneer subtly steering the narrative as a reporter. You can disagree with these methods but you can’t argue with the results or that the right has generally been terrible at countering this approach. The left or its ideology dominates practically every nongovernmental sector of import today from education, entertainment, the media, corporations, unions, cultural, tech/sci, military brass. What institution does the right have, half of the churches, maybe?
By and large conservatives far more than liberals treat the culture wars as a detached phenomenon. The vast majority limit their politics to voting, the few that go beyond that tend to do so in an explicit and limited fashion. Most conservatives just want to live their lives. They don't want to mobilize for "social justice activism" or "change", they just want to be left alone.
Unfortunately, when attackers attack, Defenders are compelled to Defend or be vanquished.
What institution does the right have, half of the churches, maybe?
The Guns. I think many of us put too much emphasis on this point while Liberals surround us with their institutions.
I also think some of this is systemic. If you will note, Cities are where the liberal power is concentrated, and the wealthier are the cities, the more liberal they are.
I've read of numerous examples where wealth and liberalism coincide, and many thinkers on the topic realize there is a relationship between wealth and liberalism.
Some of this institutional crawl towards liberalism was simply baked into the cake of the changing nature of society corresponding to the accumulation of wealth.
Have you ever looked at the Tytler cycle?
Also Kyklos.
I think some of what we are seeing is the consequence of those political cycles which are larger than a normal man can see in his lifetime.