Well, it's a depressing thought, but 35-40 years ago, during Vietnam, the US was a much more conservative country than it is now, and even then, we weren't smart enough to see through the leftist and Democratic stab in the back.
The media is playing the exact script against the country and the administration it did against first Johnson and then Nixon.
Well, we elected Nixon first on a split vote although the Wallace vote was conservative. we reelected Nixon by a landslide over McGovern. It took Watergate to actually lose Southeast Asia.