@nozaki @caekislove @dew_the_dew @qwerty well, we don't have institutional power, but we do have cultural power believe it or not. And if you combine cultural power with the willingness to use force you get something that is politically relevant if not electorally relevant. See, people hear "politics" and they think offices, they think elections, occasionally they think appointments, but they don't really think culture. Culture is like half of politics at a minimum.
And interestingly enough it is the weakest part of leftism. Leftists don't really have culture. They have effective attacks on our culture, whether it be our religious culture, our secular entertainment culture, our professional culture, and so on, but they don't really have culture of their own. BLM, Pride, etc, these are their efforts at creating a culture of their own and they have no staying power without the institutional support that they have.
We, on the other hand, are a humongous knot in their hair by culture alone. Consider for a minute that 30% of the population never got covax, and they pulled out all the stops over that; they literally threatened people's livelihoods over this one and it still didn't work. Consider for a minute that random shit posters on 4chan create massive national fiascos on a whim by typing "IT'S OKAY TO BE WHITE" and using their home printer. Consider for a minute how 40% of the population thinks our elections are rigged. Consider that this Pride Month shit is seeing a direct, bottom up correction by people who change tires for a living.
They are expert infiltrators, but we won the culture war. We won it. It's ours.