They are also victims of their own success. Every left-progressive meme has been shat into the public-consciousness to absolute saturation for over a century. The American child starts ingesting a daily diet of leftist memes at 5 years old, or even earlier if they watch Sesame Street, Disney, etc. The memetics of leftism is a carefully constructed house of cards that collapses instantly at the slightest breeze of independent, critical thinking. Thus, the primary objective of leftism is to preserve an absolute vacuum of independent thinking, a safe-space where only groupthink can occur and batshit leftist memes can spread based solely on network effects because, like any con, they can spread in no other way.
In other words, the exact result you ALWAYS get when you accept the idea that a parasitic ruling class has some kind if legitimate authority to rule over you.