Very true, and not just here. Somewhere along the line the default role of government in the Western world became to enforce a kind of race/gender-based, selective socialism.

I think it was Milton Friedman who was so fond of saying "You care more about the motive than you do the result.". The putrid carcass of what was once liberal ideology has, at it's center, the unwavering belief that their motives are pure (equality of outcome), and therefore, no escalation is too far, no opposition justifiable.

And a semblance of that ideal exists across the political spectrum. I am not aware of a single major political candidate whose platform involves (or even alludes to) abolishing affirmative action.