here is your non-meme answer: they thought that fukuyama was right and that liberalism would install itself permanently and irremovably, which is why they went all in shilling for it as a way of grinding regime loyalty points in the coming thousand year tranny reich, until they realized that they're now stuck in their own perestroika where liberalism is being deconstructed and demolished due to accelerationism, and that their unrepentant loyalty to progressivism is feeding into the far-right's talking points and was not buying anyone's loyalty at all. only putting a target on their backs. this is the literal same thing that happened to our countries right when the communist regime was collapsing, when the communists realized that the far-right is being empowered and will seek to punish them for turning us into a muddy rusty shithole, and as a failsafe against that they just went back to larping as neutral centrist socdems (the mensheviks that they slaughtered in the original revolution). a perfect example is russia where, unknown to most westerners, the og putin and medvedev were both pro-west liberals and rather friendly to globohomo culture, as a rallying point against the far-right that actually threatened them, so that the regime could swap shirts and regroup to prevent the actual nazis from seizing power. trump is like their last chance of reverting the damage and hopefully reestablishing a libertarian center as a fallback. it's like, "look, it's not over, we will elect your candidate, please don't chimp out yet". that, and jewish money abandoning the left for the first time in 50 years in preparation for the american perestroika, since you don't want to get caught backing the dead horse in such times of mass radicalization. you don't want to be the kulak before the revolution. for the first time in a few generations, you can see the old jewish survival instinct actually fire and 180 judea's half a century of schizophrenic strategy overnight.
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