It's a long-term strategy to maintain the rhetoric of Leftist Inevitability: all previous generations of Leftists were actually Conservatives; all of today's Leftists are tomorrow's Conservatives.

Because Leftism has no objective principled grounding, and is only a Philosophy of War, they can take bad ideas that they had that worked against them, and declare the entire thing "right wing". TERFs are "Right-Wing", and gender essentialists are "Far Right", even though both were considered Leftwing at an earlier time.

Edit - Actually this is part of Racialism's history as well. The Left considers it to be a "conservative" ideology, that was espoused, uplifted, and institutionalized by Progressives like Woodrow Wilson.

It's a long-term strategy to maintain the rhetoric of Leftist Inevitability: all previous generations of Leftists were actually Conservatives; all of today's Leftists are tomorrow's Conservatives.

Because Leftism has no objective principled grounding, and is only a Philosophy of War, they can take bad ideas that they had that worked against them, and declare the entire thing "right wing". TERFs are "Right-Wing", and gender essentialists are "Far Right", even though both were considered Leftwing at an earlier time.

It's a long-term strategy to maintain the rhetoric of Leftist Inevitability. All previous generations of Leftists were actually Conservatives. All of today's Leftists are tomorrow's Conservatives.

Because Leftism has no objective principled grounding, and is only a Philosophy of War, they can take bad ideas that they had that worked against them, and declare the entire thing "right wing". TERFs are "Right-Wing", and gender essentialists are "Far Right", even though both were considered Leftwing at an earlier time.