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It's interesting the headline pitches it as a left-right battle, whereas the article/excerpt is much more progressive vs. conservative.
I wasn't around at that time, but weren't huge swathes of the masses equally conservative then? Aren't conservative values appealing because they are simple to understand?
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/01/how-a-disastrous-change-in-perspective-disempowered-the-left-and-let-the-right-rise
I read this ...
Throughout the 60s and the early 70s, most progressive activists had seen “the people” (however that term was defined) as the solution to a sexist, racist oppression associated with the wealthy and the powerful. Increasingly, though, many progressives identified the masses not as the answer but as the problem, a foolish and slightly terrifying reservoir of cultural and political backwardness. This disastrous perspective – an implicit confirmation of the case being made by conservative culture warriors – would play an important role in the right’s ongoing successes.