I need a sense check; please feel free to talk me down if you think I've gone mad.
I am looking at the recent (2 years-ish) macropolitical (transnational) timeline. I see a rise of populism veering unpleasantly towards nationalism, corporatist power leverage, a resurgence of white supremacy, etc. You know the drill.
I also see relatively effective mass resistance led by women (exhibit A: Women's Marches; exhibit B: women protesting the rise of the right in Poland, etc.), banding together with other 'minority' categories who stand to lose out, e.g. PoCs. In terms of mobilisation of resistance with the capacity to actually make a difference in voting booths, these demographics are big. Together, even more so.
On the heels of this, the 'TRA vs. TERF' debate, in all its noxious, confusing, divisive glory flares up, and is shown to be able to split 'radical' (old-school, really) feminists from middle-class, well-meaning third wavers, (some) female feminists from (some) male feminists/allies, lesbians from the LGBTQ+ camp, etc. Social media campaigns turn to doxxing, death/rape threats, abusive pile-ons; the usual formula.
Am I mad to draw a speculative line of possible association between the two?
And if I am not mad, is there any bona fide investigative activity going on?