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What role did the counterculture and antiwar movement play in helping Richard Nixon win the presidency?
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VerifiedThe counterculture and antiwar movement helped elect Richard Nixon and promote American conservatism because of the backlash the movement provoked among "mainstream Americans"--an older and generally more rural group of citizens that held traditional values. Driven by a movement based on love, peace, and understanding, the issues at stake for hippies and social activists were life and death (freedom of expression, anti-racism, equal rights for women, among others). Because of this, the protests and lifestyles of the counterculture movement’s members caused a lot of civil unrest. In addition to a growing sense among older Americans that the youth were losing their morality and rationality, mainstream Americans flocked to a political movement that valued tradition and order. Richard Nixon, who grimly depicted the changing state of the nation in his 1968 acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, embodied this conservatism, and he handily beat the liberal Hubert Humphrey in the election. But without mainstream America’s response to the liberalism of the counterculture and antiwar movements, this political ideology likely wouldn’t have taken hold.
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