It occurs to me that a lot of people who identify with the moral crusades–really the moral posturing–of the Left have secret fantasies of getting to be Santa Claus, of rectifying all the miseries of all the people they claim to care about, and of receiving widespread praise and accolades for it. They want parades in their honor, as has often happened in various Communist regimes.
And they RESENT any people dumb enough not to realize they are being “saved” and protected. Being psychopaths and narcissists, they assume such people are simply ungrateful, or worse, the tools of their enemies. What they do not do is listen and learn. That would be abusive and corrosive to their fantasies.
Look at an AOC or Kim Jung Un through this lens. It work, in my view.