In a rather puzzling way I suspect that many of those people who wedded themselves to Western notions of progressivism over the last decade–notions which betrayed both an uncritical belief in linear concepts of human and social progression, in addition the rejection of their ancestral orientations including modes of resistance and ways of knowing which were incongruous with liberalism–concluded that they had reached the imagined end of history; that is, that the aforementioned paradigm had triumphed over all others, rendering other ideas of human progress as, ultimately, irrelevant. The exposure of liberal social theories (particularly the vulgar identity politics of the last decade) as insufficient vehicles to either explain or confront the current global and domestic political economy, the genocides in Africa and western Asia, and rise of authoritarian fascism in the US all exposed the inadequacy of liberalism. Not only has it been exposed as vacuous, but also dependent on the largess of the state and corporate sector.
One hopes that in times like these that revolutionary ideas are rediscovered and that faux radicalism is dismissed for the farce that it always was.