My sense is we are seeing sort of changing of the guard, where the old, tired ways, names and brands are simply discarded, the same way we leave things behind when new technologies or better ways of doing things come along and the old ways are abandoned.
This is true for Big Labor and its unions, the media and its many disciples and, with any luck since skill is noticeably absent, this will be especially true for the symbiotic political parasite that feeds on all of it, the progressive movement worldwide.
We just don't want or need any of it anymore! And we don't like the suicidal mess it's created and has forced us to deal with.
Not at all that I find any fault in the above statement. I simply wonder who "we" are these days? And unfortunately I think "we" are a small minority getting smaller by the day.