You have to account for the ratchet/motte-and-bailey tactics of the “other side” to co-opt energy mobilized against Conservatives into… Serving corporate efforts, wars, and basically just acting to the maximum amount of conservators while preserving the image of opposition.

Conservatives don’t get in power because the opposition is doing a really good job opposing.

So the problem is opportunistic parasitism build from a culture and social structure that rewards consolidating your wealth, and suggests the ‘good people’ use their power to stopper the leaks of basic social functioning at every other level.

So, good people don’t have the power to compete in such a system, and bad people consolidate, and opportunistically cooperate much better than most cooperative progressives seem to.

None of this would be possible without the idiot cult suckling fascist propaganda, but it’s definitely a more robust problem than that.