“When the left pushed the narrative that 2+2 can equal 5 I knew we were in trouble.”
But 2+2 Does equal 5....for bloated values of 2, as 2 approaches 2.5. (One has to take into consideration woke math.)
You bring up an interesting point, to me.
What Conservatives have to contend with, I believe, is things like elementary school math teaches things like, “2 + 2 = 4”, which are important to learn. Only later in life does the student learn that, in the real world, “2” is rarely just 2.
How people assimilate this is what the Left capitalizes on. Most can probably accept that mathematics is theoretical. A great many, however, experience what another poster identified as “cognitive dissonance” and, when they learn that sometimes “2” is not just 2, they decide that it never is, and that Mathematics must just be the White Patriarchy, or some such nonesense.