It seems the leftists have seized every government institution based on philosophical premises that all government institutions are socialist by their very nature, so all you need to do is push the right buttons and pull the right strings to co-opt those institutions and use them to impose authoritarian leftist views. They have become experts at co-opting any centralized authority, even the Catholic Church. Normally, a market based system balances out their extremes because people who listen to them lose profit, but because of the low interest rates and the constant stock bubbles, not even corporate USA has been able to contain them anymore.

So now the conservatives, after getting a big fat juicy FU during the last election cycle, have finally woken up to that the leftists are not just people with differing opinions, but actual mortal enemies who are at war with them. But I think they are perusing the wrong strategy. Too many think the problem is that to mush liberalism in the culture allowed to much leftism, and if we just weed that out, the culture and the government will fall back into line. They also ironically want to keep the artificially low interest rates, which ironically feed the leftist beast.

But the truth is, as long as the government does our health care, education, retirement, and military ventures, they will not and can not stop always pulling towards extreme leftism. Government inside of these institutions, by it's very nature, removes market accountability and replaces it with political accountability. The leftists are wrong about everything else, but are actually right about the nature of state power. So basically this sets things up to be this constant battle between leftists who are experts at co-opting the state, and conservatives who are trying to do the impossible task of making state power work for them, and libertarians will be stuck right smack in the middle of this battle.