A stronger better hippy !

If there was no Vietnam, and perhaps no 1968, could we be looking at a left-wing backlash in the USA that would have had more lasting effect in the 1970s-1990s ?

Witrhout association with opposition to a useless war (and thus to the nostalgic counter to this, and the militaristic one, where either Vietnam was a necessity in the American spirit, or was a victory thrown away), without the false dawn of leftwing sentiment too...

Early-mid 1970s a strong resistance gathers unto it meaningful powers

By 1980, the left-wing backlash is running many cities, several states and is posed to make significant inroads nationally

Step back - no Vietnam, well LBJ maybe gets a second term, whilst in 1972 maybe Nixon makes a stand, but quite possibly after 4 more years in opposition he has self-destructed and we are looking at a Nelson Rockefeller presidency. 1976 is more polarised but he manages to get re-elected, but by 1980 all hell is breaking loose

It wouldn't be anyone like Carter or Mondale, and making it a Kennedy seems just like playing a game. IIRC I read that Gary Hart contested 1980, albeit not very well. Would he or someone like him be a credible candidate to win in 1980 ?

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Grey Wolf
 
We had a left-wing backlash in 1974, with a lot of young liberals entering government as voters expressed their disgust with Nixon. How is your proposed scenario different?

What do these hippies protest? What are their main goals? How many of these goals do they perceive can't be enacted with the current government?
 
Sorry, I thought I made clear that it gathers momentum later and lasts longer. Basically, after 1980, the left was dead in Britain and the USA, its flush busted, its hope annihilated for a generation, then to resurface as some sort of bastardised conservatism anyway

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Grey Wolf
 
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