Doesn't mean it was not a good thing.

where did I claim anything of the sort? my point was and still is, you can't beat the left at their own game. not in the long run, and nowadays not even in the short run.
bringing up BYS as example of anything more than a curiosity or a short-lived dopamine rush is, with all due respect, foolish.

The main problem is that the right just wants to stop the left, as opposed to rolling back their nonsense.

so we agree. except that I don't think "rolling back their nonsense" is something that the right is remotely capable of doing, barring some major real life event. by all means feel free to suggest a strategy that you think could work.