I mean, some of the most radicalization happened because of how farmers were getting fucked by banks, and by various combines, and so a lot of them started doing stuff like collective action.

I think the book What's the Matter With Kansas? even goes over some of this history. But I think as most family farms went bust, most of America went urban between 1910-1920, that kind of collective action was almost predetermined to get squashed. And the people holding out buy into a whole lotta Hollywood-style myth-making about rural life (ironically). Couple that with a lot of propaganda and racism and it spells the current situation.

Ironically, on the enshittification front, it was progressives that I first noticed pushing the "right to repair" stuff, by the way. Same with the stuff about patenting genetics of seeds...