Think chicken and egg here. They had all of that stuff and are still losing elections and failing to pacify ideas they deem unthinkable.
The way the got those things was in very deceptive and for lack of a better term "feminine" methods. They came in at a time when the west was hyper powerful and hyper productive to a degree that most people didn't really have to pay attention to anything or do anything. They used white people's kindness lack a backdoor into those seats of power without actually learning to rule or to earn.
The left's control is basically the equivalent of a gorgeous pretty rich girl batting her eyes and asking her rich daddy who works 12 hours a day for money. He's going to give it to her because he'd rather not argue. But she never actually learned the life skills she needs, she never learned how the world actually works, she's not prepared.
Now that the western world is actually experiencing pain and people are expressing their displaesure, there's pressure from both sides.
The fact that the left has the media, institutions, they have successfully painted all of their detractors as nazis, they have all the celebrities, the IPs, all of it, and yet they still lose elections is a huge failure. It's like starting an rts with 20,000 of each resource and losing to somebody who didn't cheat. They're better than you.
It's no wonder the average lefty who believes reddit and CNN are honest are losing their minds right now. They had the official story laid out for them so neatly and it just isn't playing out that way. That's got to cause an existential crisis.