You may have noticed that the violent reaction is dominated by...

Common factor is a need to retroactively maintain a personal narrative - "Temporal Bioleninism"
Liberal boomers burned down millennia of culture, wealth, & wisdom, sold their inheritance to foreigners, abandoned their families - & all of that was justified by the postwar progressive political project
If that project is repudiated by their grandchildren - if they find themselves, ironically, "on the wrong side of history" - then it all came to nothing
It would mean that, actually, they were just assholes - their ideology was always a self-serving joke, the story of their lives is pure waste & loss & tragedy, they are already in hell
& since the book of their lives is written, & there's nothing they can do about it, they'll do pretty much anything that lets them believe a different story about themselves

These aren't mutant dregs glomming on to Marxism as their only plausible path to status
they might have been other things - but now radical Marxism is the only tolerable mode of understanding their past & present
She'll believe & do & say literally anything that kills that thought








