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They haven't lost the war. They've lost a battle. With that said, they've lost a bunch of battles in the past couple of years, so an explanation is still warranted.
The look of things is that the inroads the right has made into the tech world (most notably Elon Musk buying Twitter, but to some degree also alt-tech getting its act together with places like Substack) were critical; it seems that SJ's clean sweep of "first-tier" social media platform censorship was actually at least somewhat load-bearing in keeping the youth loyal (to come back to the US election - the swing among 18-29s was 15% for men and 7% for women, and this despite Jan 6). Apparently, Elon Musk spending ~$100,000,000,000 spearing his white whale ($44b buying Twitter, the rest in losses from Biden's "Fair Game" order) actually hit a vital organ.
SJ is not dead. They still have the education system and a good chunk of company bureaucracies in their pocket, and while Musk may have outlasted Biden, SJ might yet manage to pull off replacing Twitter. They're definitely on the back foot, though; SJ had at first the advantage of surprise and then an aura of inevitability, but they have neither now. And, of course, one must always factor in that most tail risks hit SJ much harder than its adversaries.
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