Indeed. Something that reminded me of this recently is how the Left have incoherently turned on a dime regarding 'big pharma'.

2011-12 Occupy Wall Street: Screw corporations, screw big pharma. Anyone who likes big pharma is just a capitalist bootlicker.

2020-21 pandemic: We love corporations. I can't wait to get the 'jab'. I'm even going to get a tattoo with the name of the corporation who manufactured it. Anyone who doesn't like big pharma is just an unscientific, dangerous anti-vaxxer. You should have to be vaccinated to leave home (see, for example, a recent Tweet on Ron Perlman's account about what he would do if he was President) and going around without a mask is literally attempted murder (see, for example, the third link I posted).

Fascism actually has a philosophical tradition that is practically unknown in quackademia. Gentile and Evola worked with German idealism, and practically all later 'fascists' like Benoist and Faye very clearly worked with later philosophical schools, Benoist with Schmitt and the postmodernists, Faye with the conservative revolution types.

The fact that almost every DR or DR-adjacent content creator seems to be a graduate or higher also tells us something. Greg Johnson, Keith Woods, Joel Davis, Tyler Hamilton from philosophy; JF Gariepy from neuroscience; normapollo from psychology, Dutton from anthropology, etc. At least three of those are doctorates.

Once the Left was actually hampered by being overly intellectual (e.g. Marx's Capital, the book which even Marxists can't be bothered reading). Fast forward a century and they're a bunch of blithering cretins offended by things as innocuous as meat-eating, the name 'Montenegro', cats that look vaguely Hitlerian, etc. Wait till they learn that the Philippines has an island named 'Negros' and an indigenous tribe named the 'Negritos'.