Realignment on the Right

[RS Davis]

[glow=red,2,300]Daniel McCarthy Wrote:[/glow]An untold tale of the late 1960's is the story of how the American Right split in two at the end of the decade, a fission that produced conservatism and libertarianism as they exist today. Changes on the Left during this period have received no shortage of scholarly and journalistic attention, focusing on the student New Left's disaffection with Cold War liberals like Lyndon Johnson on the one hand, and Stalinism and its apologists on the other. For the Left, the re-defining moment came in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where New Leftists protesting the draft and the Vietnam War clashed violently with Mayor Daley's police, in what remains a famous episode in modern American history.

- Rick