Do politicians in your country use a local version of the “Cultural Marxism” conspiracy theory or similar rhetoric? How mainstream is it?

So, for those unaware, a short description:

The “Cultural Marxism” conspiracy theory is a contemporary revival of the Nazi propaganda term “Cultural Bolshevism.” While the original, Nazi, term is overtly antisemitic, contemporary use tends to downplay, or completely omit—at least in appearance—the antisemitic content. The conspiracy theory in itself posits that a group of Marxist intellectuals and Critical Theorists—i.e. the Frankfurt School and it’s pupils—are subverting Western society with a culture war that undermines the society by promoting the progressive values of, among other things, 1960s counterculture and multiculturalism, generally progressive politics and “political correctness,” the latter being a common buzzword in itself.

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In Denmark there are perhaps two groups. You could call them the covert and the overt. If we start with the latter, it is perhaps best embodied by the liberal politician Henrik Dahl—who has a ph.d in sociology—and the national-conservative politician Morten Messerschmidt, not to mention people like Lars Boje Mathiesen from the recently formed liberal party “New Right.” The two first-mentioned teamed up a couple of years ago, and started pushing a rhetoric against what they call “Wokeism:” a movement in Danish universities who conduct pseudo-scientific research in order to push their anti-Western political agenda. Their critique ranges from mentioning various fields, like Gender Studies, or attacking institutions like the University of Roskilde—founded by left-wing academics—to naming specific researchers from the pulpit in parliament. Subsequently many of the researches have experienced excessive harassment, death-threats and the like, so much so, that increasingly researchers are retracting from the public conversation in Denmark. While Lars Boje Mathiesen isn’t part of either of the other two’s party, he does push similar rhetoric.

The more “covert” form of this conspiracy is more widespread among other liberal and conservative politicians, and often is expressed through general usage of, more or less, anti-academic rhetoric and groundless complaints about undefined political correctness, often digging for extremely specific examples of how political correctness is attacking Danish culture, among other things by replacing one national-romantic song for another, when the first was, according to liberal and conservative politicians, “not PC enough.” Many of the critiques of the academic world that are raised _could be_ valid enough, if they weren’t then used as rhetorical pieces to show how, for example “political correctness” destroys Danish culture, or how academics are “politicising their research.”

What about in your countries? I am already aware of the French local version, “_islamo-gauchisme_”(“Islamo-Leftism”) which posits a sort of “unholy alliance” between Islamist radicals and leftist parties and intellectuals.