"A Precious Snowflake"?

That's David Roberts describing the sort of liberals who believe in climate change.  He says: "Everyone has their own perfect pony policy solution and disdains all others....You need a left that is greater than the sum of its siloed constituent parts, so that climate is no longer the sole province of “the environmental movement,” gender equality no longer the sole province of “feminism,” worker welfare no longer the sole province of “labor,” etc.—some good old-fashioned solidarity. The left used to have some of that. Why doesn’t it any more? Why does the left seem so much less than the sum of its parts these days?"

His answer: the left used to rely on unions and the liberal mainstream churches, both of which are now shadows of their former selves, and nothing has risen to replace them. 

That rings true enough to me.  I remember Walter Reuther, head of UAW, being big in civil rights issues.  I remember the World Council of Churches, the epitome of establishment religion, also being big in civil rights.  The League of Women Voters was big in political reform, attacking the urban bosses, who were also big, at least through the 1960's.  There aren't those kinds of mass organizations left, just on the right where you have particularly the religious organizations.