Sharp analysis. It’s worth pointing out that this is not new, and was preceded by the postmodernists. Foucault was fully aware of it. The substrate is easy to deconstruct. The only real question is, do you want to deconstruct it?

Modern conservatives are, obviously, conservative and would rather not. They’re trying to hold on to an older social form before identity politics took over everything, but they are still clearly in the enlightenment camp, as Jonathan Haidt noted almost fifteen years ago in the Righteous Mind. The leftists have always been willing to burn it, knowing it was more subjective than advertised, and hoping they could find the True Path on the other side that probably doesn’t exist. The liberals soiled themselves and ran for the bathroom decades ago.

There will be a compromise. In the meantime, the politics will be about vendetta, like post-invasion Iraq. If you’re involved in this personally, the thing to do is watch your back.