This also helps explain why Russiagate and impeachment were such huge legislative priorities after Democrats won control of the House in 2018. Those issues animate the highly activated, obsessively anti-Trump left/liberal activist demographic in affluent suburban constituencies
A recent article from American Affairs editor Julius Krein touches on a related theme ( https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/11/the-real-class-war/). It should be read as supplementary to our article on the failure of the Bernie campaign ( https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce/)
Conservatives are often better at analyzing trends in left-liberalism than left-liberals themselves, because one of the defining characteristics of left-liberals is being in a constant state of self-denial
Krein also skewers modern conservatism in his article, just in case one of the prerequisites for you to consider reading is equal opportunity skewering
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