As you alluded to in another article, the leftist activists of the 60s failed because their views were in the minority. Hence they relied on the Law and free speech for protection — while they played the long game.

But now the long march through the institutions bares fruit. They have trained legions of activists who don’t understand the values and norms of a western democratic society. Once they wield the power of the majority, why should they accept restrictions on that power?

Besides, those who are ignorant about how their social arrangements work will never notice when those arrangements are being undermined.

Of course they are leftist activists and that’s primary. I think that almost goes without saying. I don’t know how old you are, but in my generation even most leftist activist lawyers had more respect for the law. They used it but were less inclined to twist it – although of course some people did. Now it’s standard operating procedure and almost universal among leftists of later generations.

Just to take one example, in older generations leftist activists were more likely to respect the adversary system and didn’t try to block people on the right from having legal representation, nor did they try to disbar lawyers on the right. But this is very often the approach of leftist activists nowadays.

If you want to consider generational differences, I suggest that these people share the following:
1. They don’t understand how the “ends justifying the means” frequently ends badly.
2. They don’t stop to consider whether or not the enemy is evil at all.
3. They dehumanize the enemy and his supporters.
4. They don’t understand the values and norms of a western democratic society. And they don’t understand why those ideas matter. In particular, tearing down the justice system and undermining individual rights (e.g. free speech) destroy the foundations of the country, and the damage cannot be repaired peacefully.

Those who were born in the Seventies and came of age in the Eighties aren’t so skeptical or so cynical about the way things work, but they’re also more likely to accept today’s progressive ideas.

Of course, there are people even older who have bought into today’s wokeism, and my family certainly isn’t representative of the whole country, but it seems like what stays with people from their formative years isn’t the explicit ideas and ideologies of that time, but a mood or a temperament: pessimistic or optimistic, skeptical or credulous. Of course it could also be a result of birth order.

I certainly wasn’t saying that it’s ONLY people in that age group who would behave that way. I just think it’s more common among prosecutors of that age group and younger.

I’m sure these people don’t feel shame, but I believe that their age and upbringing isn’t the issue. Instead, I think that they’re true believers, willing to do whatever is necessary for the greater good.