
To be fair to them, elites propagandizing like that has never happened before if you ignore the aftermath of Bacon’s rebellion, or the fugitive slave act, or basically everything surrounding the civil rights movement, or the New Deal excluding people of color, or the end of reconstruction, or
“If we just have enough laws, everyone on earth will be able to come to America and we will all be able to live in harmony and everyone will get what they want” vs “the elite shouldn’t be allowed to undercut American labor and sell out the American people”. Which one sounds more realistic to you.
Culturally Marxist ideologies take the oppressor/oppressed framework of Marxist economics and apply it to social issues. They swap capitalists oppressing workers for dominant cultural groups oppressing marginalized ones. They also tend to have a bad habit of ignoring individual agency and forcing facts to fit a predetermined story rather than following the evidence.