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Would it be possible for opposition to the Vietnam War in the 1960s to be led largely by the ideological heirs of Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee? Or does the anti-Communist nature of that conflict pretty much guarantee that Old Right types are going to side with the war effort?
I'm thinking that if there had been no draft, that would remove a considerable amount of the youthful opposition to the war, along with the leftward political bent that youth, by its nature, usually brings to a cause. So, any involved right-wingers could just end up ruling by default. That is, if there were any right-wingers around in the movement.
I believe that Lawrence Dennis, a leftover fascist from the 1930s, eventually became a critic of the Vietnam War and American imperialism generally, though according to wikipedia he renounced his earlier views. And I know I've read things by anti-Catholic(and hence likely anti-immigrant) zealots who opposed the war because they thought the Republic Of Vietnam was a Vatican puppet.