Both the left and the right are too enamored of magical solutions to hard problems to achieve anything before calamity.

The left believes that strategic magic words, the sheer power of identity, and a weird new form of censorious prudishness will solve everything.

The right believes that re-confining women to the kitchen, creating a white nationalist state and lots and lots of guns will certainly right the ship.

Of course, like all magical solutions, none of this is useful though some of it is very harmful in itself. Hard problems require large changes. The magic approach is just a way to forestall these changes.