I had a talk with
@Vonel the other evening, and I came to the conclusion that at some point, the Western "left" switched from the argument that their policies were in the self-interest of voters and to the argument that you must think of other people first. Meanwhile, the Western "right" switched from arguments based on logical, systemic ethics to justify their pro-property stance to capturing the argument that
their policies were in the self-interest of voters. Personally, I think this occurred when Objectivism became a popular influence among the American right. A systemic, analytical approach to justifying self-interest seems like a meaningful bridge between the two. Interestingly, the Eastern bloc leftists didn't ever really make this switch which is probably because the Gay-Race communists who only used leftists economics as a smokescreen were all purged in the Eastern bloc while they captured institutions in the West.
This whole second term is a culmination of the right actually living up to that self-interest of voters, and this is why the anti-trumpists are so ass-blasted that young, White Americans are no longer willing to sacrifice their economic interests for groups that hate them.
That or they're just evil, soul-sucking parasites who need to be burned out with the rest of the speculative capitalist system. Bit of column A, bit of column B most likely.