In the 90s, political pundits moaned about it being an era of

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In the 90s, political pundits moaned about it being an era of oppressive political correctness. They sincerely believed that it "couldn't get worse" and that they were on the front lines of a "return to normalcy."
Let me remind you that in the 90s, we were debating why calling Asians "Chinamen" or "Gooks" was racist, finally eliminating the continued use of the phrase "negro" from certain holdout regions, such as the deep south, and debating whether homosexuals should be actively persecuted in the military, or simply tolerated, with a decent plurality of Americans thinking at the time thinking homosexuality is inherently immoral, let alone being transgender.
My questions are, then,
>What the fuck happened between then and now, to make the "progressive" opinion in the 90s literally be worthy of being called "far-right" today, to many of today's "progressives?" If that continues, will progressives in 20 years also call this period "far-right?" When do the wheels of the progressive train stop? When do they say, "we've made progress, we have the bedwork of a fair society, now let's cultivate it; AKA, the transition to conservatism?