Specifically regarding the political fallout of foreign wars, I think it’s hard to overstate what a big difference it made that there was a draft then and there isn’t one now. Also, of course, American body counts are an order of magnitude lower in Iraq/Afghanistan than they were in Vietnam.
There were more bombings back then, though. A lot more. Not sure how the death tolls stack up. White supremacists were also blowing up shit in the '60s (the church bombing that’s dramatized in Selma, for example).
I just feel, based entirely on historical accounts, not having been alive at the time, that it seems like the issue then was more about “we need to vote out the bastards who are getting us into this war etc.” rather than existential fear for the Republic itself. But I could be wrong. I’d be curious to read some Watergate-era op eds. Were people afraid Nixon was going to tear down the system, or was it more just hoping a corrupt one-off got the boot?
i graduated high school the year Nixon left office. I remember seeing some of the Watergate hearings in congress. I remember at the time people thinking it was more about Nixon’s weaknesses than any attempt to tear down the political system.
Unsurprising. The local Democrat has been running unopposed there for awhile now, but that area contains some real shitholes like Rockingham and Lumberton. I dunno if Walker would unseat the incumbent, but if it’d happen anywhere in this shithole of a state, NC-048 is definitely the one.