There were a number of items.
Not sure what your point is. You had race fanaticism, gender fanaticism bubbling up in the later 2010s and it probably hit its peak around 2020. The republicans do what they always do (and to an extent, this is just the way politics is anymore) by overvaluing and waxing hyperbolic on lots of these issues. Trying to politically capitalize.
But that didn't mean they just pulled it out of thin air.
That's sort of like the Trumpers only focusing on the poorly argued or nonsensical attacks on the man and stating that it's all Trump derangement syndrome. That doesn't absolve Trump.