I responded below with a bit of snark, which sometimes one can regret. In this instance I thought about it and decided to revisit for a better exchange. I really meant ideologically, but your answer in hindsight was just as good. You described very accurately who comprises the Democratic party. So, let's ask why since this represents a rather small, but admittedly powerful elite (I chuckle at the cosmopolitan oligarch reference) with substantial influence, if by PMC you are referring to progressive media conglomerate, of course, blacks, Jews, and Zionists, (the protected classes) although the Christian Zionists lean right and are jeered by many, me included. This made me think of Thorsten Veblen's classic, "The Theory of the Leisure Class." The elites of today are symbolic capitalists where social justice is not just a political cause they can embrace but also a shrewd, advantageous way to get on in the world. Veblen noted in the Gilded Age, the key to status competition was "conspicuous consumption." The status in the "internet age" is conspicuous compassion. Wokeness, like the crew you cited, has become a key source of cultural capital among contemporary elites and the progressives. allowing them to be seen as interesting, daring, brave, sophisticated, and empathetic, a reputation that is not only good in itself, but good for tangible rewards it confers in career and social advancement, but shallow. This makes sense to many who assume that anyone who claims to take seriously the idea of 74 genders must have ulterior motives. All this suggests there is no conflict between sincere commitment to a political viewpoint and taking advantage of the life afforded by that commitment. It is a rule that symbolic capitalists may truly believe what they say, yet it is simultaneously true that progressives exploit social justice advocacy to make themselves feel good, but ultimately offer up little more than symbolic gestures and platitudes to redress the material harms they decry, often exacerbate, but that's about as far as it goes. Pretty shallow, no?