The right out-organized the left in grassroots antipolitics mobilization.

Evidence

No matter how the relative weight of bottom-up versus top-down dynamics are calculated, the fact remains that the right was here better positioned than the left, both on the ground and among elite actors. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 208

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core question of why right-wing social capital survived mass-institution hollowing while the left’s failed. — connects to: Hard-right Republican power runs on volunteer activists mobilized by rage transformed into political therapy — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 85; Right-wing groups hijacked the 2013 protest repertoire with elite funding — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 553; New social movements’ non-economic grievances fueled the right, not the left — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 540