It does seem to be a cycle, between the social and intellectual expansion of liberalism and the cultural and conceptual consolidation of conservatism.

Once all the life is wrung out of it, liberalism becomes the new conservatism and necessarily in conflict with prior layers of conservatism. For his day, Jesus was not only liberal, but a radical.

Which goes much deeper into the psyche and culture than anything remotely modern.

A large part of the problem goes to the concept of monotheism. Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell.

While it is politically expedient to equate the source of life with a father figure lawgiver, equating the ideal, which is aspirational with the absolute, which is elemental, creates the belief one's ideals are universal, rather than unique. The consequent tendency toward absolutism has motivated many of the ideologies seeking to replace monotheism and its political incarnation of monarchy.

Keep in mind democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic societies, as that was the Ancients interpretation of the multiculturalism of diverse groups, sexes, generations, etc. The Romans adopted Christianity as the empire was fully incorporated and any remnants of the Republic were shed.

When the West went back to populist forms of government, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

So now we have these various movements, all thinking they are on the road to nirvana, with no concept of feedback and blowback. It was one thing when the elites used Jim Crow laws to keep the poor whites and Blacks from identifying along class lines, but when when they think they can ostracize half the population, they haven't done their math.

More yin and yang, than God Almighty.