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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was \u201cChange it or Lose it,\u201d even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion\u2014and almost anything and everything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixties radicals tutored America on long hair, wire-rim eyeglasses, and who was a drag, a square, a bummer, and who was hip, cool, groovy, mellow, and far out. Most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be Communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.  One of their favorite psychodramatic mottos was \u201cChange it or Lose it,\u201d even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion\u2014and almost anything and everything.  Sixties radicals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3w4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11571,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-new-old-left\/","url_meta":{"origin":13520,"position":0},"title":"The Rise Of The New Old Left","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution In the 1960s, campus radicals were branded the New Left. 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