Conservatism is the new counterculture. Embrace it and establish new avenues. Stop trying to “take the country back”. Look around you. You live in the country (people) you have, not the country (people) you wish you have.
I so often think, having been a college kid in the late 60's - what ever happened to the "do your own thing?", "if it feels good- do it?", "Down with the establishment!" and so on? They all became old, uptight, rigid iconoclasts who run our government and institutions from courts, schools to chirches.
A far cry from "do your own thing"