Looking for stuff that's at least tangentially theory-- whether it be videos, books, articles, or podcast episodes-- for liberals and leftish people stuck in the nihilistic hopelessness trap.

It's difficult to get through to these people because while their worldview is vibes-based and non-materialist, it gets reinforced by worsening material conditions as well as cultural hegemony. Often backed up with a healthy dose of faux-intellectual anti-intellectualism, equating doomerism with intelligence and superiority. It feels like this is the last major thought-terminating defense mechanism to dismantle before they can start self-producing their own ideological development. But it's a self-defeating cycle because they find no reason to read theory or think about things critically because everything is hopeless.

Any recommendations for media that can pierce through this shit?