Challenge: Young Conservatives instead of New Left and Hippies

If you want to continue the Deco era and to create major butterflies to enable big changes such as the topic describes, why not something like WWIII in 1950 or 1951, before either side has too many atomic bombs or the apocalyptic networks of ICBM's we associate with the Cold War?

The U.S. never really gets a chance to transition out of the war economy, Truman is reelected in 1952, Ike is Supreme Alllied Commander again, MacArthur gets the open war with the PRC he wanted, etc.

Afterward, "Soviet dupes" are discredited just as the anti-war movement during the Great War were tarred from then on with their jail sentences for sedition during the war, major industries like steel have been nationalized, and the U.S. has more or less become a one-party dominant state.

And just as the yippies were preceded by the hippies (summer of love style) who were preceded by the early hippies (failed attempts at utopian agrarian communism), the movement of young conservatives could maybe begin with a Southern Agrarian style romantic revival of interest in country life, and using that as a vehicle for nostalgia about the past.
 
Who says counterculture can't be counterrevolutionary? Look at Turkey, where a new generation of religiously conservative free market politicians arose from decades of control by secular nationalists. Or for that matter, consider the early beginnings of the conservative revolution in the United States. It shouldn't be too hard to tweak that sort of thing so it begins with a youth movement rather than with middle-aged politicians.
 
But Conservatism is the opposite of a 'revolution' per se, so isn't this an oxymoron in itself?

This discussion seems to have hit this semantic wall a lot.

Perhaps a very leftwing government in the US in the 50s and 60s, with enormous dominance over social mores, the mass media, the government, foreign policy, and everything. In that case maybe we could have a totally dominant, culturally hegemonic, legally privileged, numerically in the majority "revolutionary counterculture"; and the "mainstream counterrevolutionaries" being small in numbers, ridiculed in the mass media, ignored by the major political parties. Like OTL hippies. But frustrating the...not the authorities, if you assume that right-wingers by definition can't oppose the authories--but the police and military and government that are firmly in the camp of the "revolutionary counterculture"...by continuing to have rallies and manifestoes and sit-ins and all that.
 
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