Understanding "woke" progressives and "alt-right" populists - political impact

IMO politics seems to have evolved in the last two decades from a sort of liberal classical left Vs religious conservative right, to a
different kind of left and right, shifting away from their original goals towards more social oriented goals.
Since these shifts present new concepts, I wonder where these concepts came from, their political impact and goals, and privately
about their validity (i.e. are the concepts presented by each camp logically and scientifically valid). I'm fascinated that people feel so
strongly about their camps
Does anyone have interest or thoughts on this perceived shift?
Both are products of identity politics in the United States. To summarize, the American Left used to be far more "progressive" in the
New Deal sense. It pursued policies on behalf of the working class and unions as a whole. This changed with the rise of the New Left
in the late 1960s, which, riding on the coattails of the civil rights movement, was much more concerned with eradicating race and
gender-based discrimination than the perils of the predominantly white working class. That's not to say at all that the New Left's
agenda was particularly bad, it simply replaced worker's rights with affirmative action and identity politics. To be completely honest,
the mainstream left hasn't really changed much since this shift.
A few years before that, there was also the Southern Strategy in 1964, where Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president,
reoriented his party's platform towards undoing the Civil Rights Acts in order to win over the deep South voter base. Although this
strategy was unsuccessful, it led to the current iteration of the Republican party. Nixon later rallied around similar racial themes to
galvanize urban working white voters, promising "law and order" during his presidential run in 1968 in response to nationwide race
riots. So, within a matter of years, the Republican party gained the support of the white working class (and became aligned with
traditional white racial interests, more or less).
The detachment of the New Left from the working class was perhaps best embodied by the Hard Hat Riot in May 1970, where AFL-CIO
workers clashed on the streets of downtown Manhattan against students protesting against the Vietnam War. So, by the early 1970s,
both parties were already racially polarized.
Of course, the following decades would be remarkably terrible for the American working class. With globalization occurring over the
span of the '80s and '90s, manufacturing jobs went overseas and economic mobility plummeted for your average white worker in the
Rust Belt. Wealth disparities in America have risen sharply, with the white working class getting the short end of the stick. They were
simultaneously cast off as "deplorable" by the mainstream left while also being backstabbed by the free trade Reaganomics of the
right. To some extent, this marginalization led to radicalization. The white working class reappropriated the identity politics of the left,
and the modern alt-right was created. This, of course, coincided with the 2016 election, with Trump's targeting of illegal immigrants
increasing the racial consciousness of uneducated white voters. Movements that haven't been popular since the era of Jim Crow such
as white nationalism reemerged, providing an "alternative" way for those who felt disenfranchised by the "swamp" in DC.
If you want to read more into this, I'd recommend two books: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis
Fukuyama, and The Once and Future Liberal by Mark Lilla.