They've been whipped into a frenzy, believing that there is a plot against them where the evil people seek to literally kill them and everything they hold dear in life (meaning, a life like in a 1950s sitcom). Every change is seen as a means to that end and they keep getting angrier.

Especially since neoliberalism encourages many of the things they're deathly afraid of (for example "open borders [at least in the propaganda they use] and immigration are good because people are not getting enough children and we need people to come work for us" or "We need to make sure Ukraine wins for the sake of human rights. For that we must all suffer a bit economically, [as Russian trade is cut off and cheap workforce and companies from Ukraine flood the EU market]")

Meanwhile socialism is both discredited by propaganda (making it universally agreed on that it is bad for the nation - something both libs and Fascists hold dear), and appears eternally split on what the right considers the most important questions.

Those are horrible times. The libs either agree with the chuds with a "Yes, but you're bad people" (I saw a debate recently between a far-right politician and a former government minister from the 80s, and when the lib said the AfD wanted to deport immigrants - he replied that that's exactly what the Scholz government was supporting.) and only disagree on the basis of foreign policy. Meanwhile socialists are still dead, and by the natural attrition of time, we only get less each year.