Don't you know? Every political season in Current Year is an ideological Vernichtungskrieg, the victor of which gets to establish their Thousand Year Reich and the loser is reduced to an obscure historical footnote like Arianism. It's just more dramatic that way.
Why are the stakes so high now when they've only been minor inconveniences and tax hikes before? Maybe it's because we're talking politics on the Internet and the present time has to be the most pivotal moment in all of history so we can feel important. Maybe it's because "The Great Reset" is so grandiose-sounding, maybe it's just the ingrained sense that the run the West has had is an aberration in history, and it seems the powers that be have collectively agreed to reduce us back to the norm.