You are looking at the details, not the process. Which is a natural cycle of expansion/liberal and consolidation/conservative.

There was a time when conservatives were royalists, then more public forms of governance evolved and now they are individualists. Total flip.

The irony you are missing entirely is the current flip, where what was liberalism 30-40 years ago, has coalesced to become today's conservatism, aka, the woke movement.

The groove has become a rather high sided, self important rut.

Here is a medium writer who has been caught in the switch;

https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/when-a-black-woman-loses-her-tribe-856828de9013