You're right, in terms of some social policies. We've gone from it being a left leaning thing to not support assaulting out LGBT people to tacit mainstream support of the idea of having equal rights.
In terms of economics and power, the rich have gotten richer, the republicans have gotten ruthlessly more fundamentalist. Reagan raised taxes. Nixon proposed universal healthcare. Obamacare/Romneycare was originally a Heritage foundation "we wish" policy document. Trump has added a trillion dollars to the deficit for a tax cut, without a peep from the "deficit hawk"s.
We’ve actually moved from a society that was openly intolerant of liberal values, to one that is openly intolerant of conservative ones. Neither of those scenarios are better, it’s just putting the shoe on the other foot. When I was a kid I had to worry about some coalition of Christians or moms petitioning congress to prevent me from listening to rage against the machine. Now I have to worry about a mob of liberals branding me a Nazi and trying to get me fired for supporting free speech. I’ve always supported freedom of expression and tolerance to other world views. When I was younger, that made me a liberal. Today, that makes me a conservative (or an extremist depending on who you ask).
Please, there’s a government literally ordering people to prop up alt-right viewpoints. Anecdotally, anytime I voice any criticism IRL and online of anything alt-right I’m immediately refuted forcefully and/or downvoted. My OP probably has more negatives than yours.
I’ve never experienced a scenario where the government has forced a view point upon me, and I’ve never heard of that happening to anybody else. What I do experience on an ongoing basis is pressure to keep my views secret, under thread of an often played out form of mob justice. The only thing that’s changed is the group of people who believe they have the moral authority to dictate my views to me.
In terms of economics and power, the rich have gotten richer, the republicans have gotten ruthlessly more fundamentalist. Reagan raised taxes. Nixon proposed universal healthcare. Obamacare/Romneycare was originally a Heritage foundation "we wish" policy document. Trump has added a trillion dollars to the deficit for a tax cut, without a peep from the "deficit hawk"s.