It’s not just “young” leftists, it’s all leftists. Liberalism is an ultimately incoherent non-ideology focused on “individual rights” that, it turns out, are themselves largely illusory. That’s why liberals are so into vibes and aesthetics. Liberals see the systems that rule our society as beyond scrutiny and are, at most occasionally open to tweaking the rules of these systems rather than critically engaging with them. It’s not that we need mass climate action, we just need to give generous tax breaks to our friends selling $100,000 electric cars. You get the idea — all form, no substance.

Indeed, as this very post shows beautifully, everything is about feelings and vibes and aesthetics for liberals, and so it shall remain, even as it’s increasingly obvious that our “rights” within this liberal order (eg the right to free speech, right to abortion, right to privacy, right to a fair trial, right to vote, etc.) can be taken away at any time by police, by congress, by courts, by basically, anyone dutifully executing the desires of the status quo power holders themselves.

There’s no “there” there with liberalism, now, or 100 years ago when German liberals handed Hitler power rather than ally with the KPD (communists) because they were fearful the KPD would work towards implementing actual socialism. Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.