Yes. The Hegemony did include anti-homosexuality, racial and gender discrimination that I'm glad we've gotten rid of. Part of the hegemonic core value set is

Yes. The Hegemony did include anti-homosexuality, racial and gender discrimination that I'm glad we've gotten rid of. Part of the hegemonic core value set is that the norms and rules can be carefully changed over time. Now, since the hegemony has adapted and added tolerance of homosexuality and disapproval of racial and gender discrimination, the Gramscians are reaching further and further into the discontented for supporters. What's really revitalized the cultural right is when the Gramscians tried to pull in Islamists and non-citizens (the least politically charged name I could come up with for this group) into the coalition of the disaffected. The contradictions in their ideology as a purported means for peaceful change of the existing system just got too huge and many people didn't understand the justification for the movement anymore in terms of a nationalist and progressivist basis. This is similar to how many people lost the plot on the justification for the Iraq war on a nationalist and progressivist basis.