“The Democrats always circle around to the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam because they felt they were on the right side of history in that era.”
How could the hippies possibly be on the right side of history when their President (JFK) started the conflict, then
ramped it up (LBJ) to 700,000 or so US military folks? The only significant thing the Republicans did about the VN conflict was to end it (Nixon).
VN was a French problem we took over.
Because in their fantasy, if JFK had lived long enough to see hippies dancing naked in the mud, he would have completely changed his political views.....Teddy’s whole political career was based on play acting what the hippies imagined JFK would transform into had he lived