The way I broadly think of it is that the left has won the culture and the right has won the economy. But not for the entire right, just the ultra rich.
I don’t think the old “right is good for the economy” canard holds up today. It seems to be a holdover from disciplined fiscal conservatism in the 1980s; 40 trillion in debt, $6 gas, and a new and unpopular war are quickly eroding that talking point.
Just shows how effective conservative propaganda is. They are uniformly terrible for the economy and it is proven literally every time they have power. Even by the 80's conservatives were fucking over the economy. Nixon probably represents the most significant shift leading us to where we are today (See Nixonomics). That's late 60's and early 70's which "coincidentally" follows the realignment of parties after the Democratic party passed the Civil Rights Act.
They won the power also
Zooming out of the intradecade view, all the power they have won't ever put gay and trans people back in the closet any more than they can reverse interracial marriage. And all the social media outrage about billionaires will do nothing to reverse wealth inequality.
Social media outrage, no. But a state which doesn’t apply laws equally and consistently opens itself up to violence, a fraction of which will be directed at the billionaire class.
We only need to eat one, the rest will fall in line.