Let me debunk some of the most favorite pol conspiracies:
1) Frankfurt school has nothing do to with the current political situation in the West. First of all, they are obsolete since the 80s. In 80s, postmodernism appeared and became the major philosophical idea, the most influential and mainstream one. By that time, in was combined with the rise of neoliberalism, Chicago boys and fall of the soviet union. All the left ideas in the West become pretty irrelevant, all the left parties become liberal ones, erased Marxist points from their programs etc. You should be retarded to aim at pretty much irrelevant philosophy school now instead of actual problems of globalized neoliberal world, Fukuyama's "end of history" and dominance of liberal democracies.
Also Frankfurt school was almost entirely about culture, not about politics, economy or some other real issues. It was all about mass culture making an ordinary person slave to media and how to oppose it. The only two political ideas they had were about politically influential knowledge and (earlier and not a Frankfurt school, but he influenced them) Gramshi's idea of cultural dominance (you should dominate over your opponents in media and among intellectuals to win) and that all was equally used by the left and the right (Fox News, various right wing think tanks, televangelists and cable channels, Beitbart and so).
To be continued in posts below