general decline of left-revolutionary feminism and corresponding growth of “female cultural nationalism” accompanied a gradual rise, by certain former radicals, to echelons of institutional and media privilege with seemingly endless column inches to spare for these women’s newfound anti-utopian cynicism and bitterness
I had already noticed, circa 2013, the gradual rise of a “völkisch environmentalism,” in which care for nature is tied to nativism, sexual traditionalism, and the muscular defense of territory