I think the real problem is the fact that normies are politically apathetic. Conservatives are as well.
When you poll people, what you find is that even without the "peak trans" event(s), trangender ideology is still immensely unpopular. The troon movement, the left in general, could only get as far as it has by marching through the institutions, under the cover of dark, and ridiculing anyone anyone who points it out. Especially by asking, "Why do you care so much?" because humans are wired to not give a shit about what goes on in the world until it affects them directly.
The sad thing is, by that time, it's often too late. And even when it's not too late, the resulting battle is far more difficult than it needed to be.
The other advantage that the left has is that they don't have a life beyond sociopolitical activism. Thus they can keep the pressure on, and never let up, even when people are ready to kick their shit in. They've got nothing else going for them, so they can afford to turn themselves into social martyrs.
Hell, the word "progressivism," implies that they are completely, single-mindedly devoted to the cause of "progress" for the sake of "progress," which is a nice way of saying "entropy," or "societal decay." There is absolutely no end goal in sight, so they will never, EVER stop. Time and time again, whenever they display any sort of standards or limits at all, it's always for the sake of optics, as their most fringe beliefs will always become mainstream given time. Whether that be sexualization of children (as stated by Gayle Rubin in the 80s) or the normalization of trooning kids out (even some troons would criticize Assigned Male or QKS back in the mid 10s, those voices are silent now).
Conservatives and normies, on the other hand, do have a (somewhat) defined goal in mind, and are content to stop (or slow down) when they think the momentum is going in their favor. Plus unlike spoiled rich leftists with nothing better to do, they have a life. They have themselves and their families and other loved ones to take care of. There's a hierarchy of needs, those things come before politics. Spoiled leftists already have those needs filled by their parents or by the government, so they can afford to devote their excessive amounts of free time to political activism.
What leftists are good at is manufacturing "consensus." They use emotional manipulation to trick people into believing that they are alone in their beliefs, that they're behind in the times, that they're "dinosaurs" or "time traveling barbarians."
For example:
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen said:
There's a naive notion among folks in general—especially among gays—that you can argue a person out of a prejudice (such as homohatred) by overwhelming him with facts and logic about the group he hates. This is untrue....
Logically speaking, nothing whatever is either disgusting or sinful, except as one feels it to be so...
...if we're going to enter into arguments with [those who disagree with us] we'd better have a strong emotional appeal in our back pocket.
...it gets a little tiresome to keep seeing and hearing [gays who]... damn all proposals as politically incorrect to precisely the degree that they rely upon cunning manipulation rather than pugnacity....
...thus, propagandistic advertising can depict homophobic and homohating bigots as crude loudmouths...who are 'not Christian.' It can show them being criticized, hated, shunned. It can depict gays experiencing horrific suffering as the direct result of homohatred—suffering of which even most bigots would be ashamed to be the cause....Note that the bigot need not actually be made to believe that he is such a heinous creature, that others will now despise him, and that he has been the immoral agent of suffering....Rather, our effect is achieved without reference to facts, logic, or proof....
...The objection will be raised...that we would 'Uncle Tommify' the gay community; that we are exchanging one false sterotype for another equally false; that our ads are lies; that that is not how all gays actually look; that gays know it, and bigots know it. Yes of course—we know it, too. But it makes no difference that the ads are lies; not to us, because we're using them to ethically good effect, to counter negative stereotypes that are every bit as much lies, and far more wicked ones....
From:
After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's (Plume, 1990)
By Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen
archive.org
Considering that this book was published in the 90s, it correlates perfectly when the LGBT community was forced to distance itself from organizations like NAMBLA in order to save face and gain mainstream support. They had to sell the lie that there wasn't a strong correlation between homosexuality and other degenerate practices like pedophilia. They had to sell the lie that gays weren't promiscuous sex fiends, that AIDS is an equal opportunity virus that can affect anyone and not just drug users and sex fiends with horrible impulse control, and that we're evil and wrong for excluding gays from the institution of marriage.
