Blue-collar workers and middle-class conservatives saw nothing of themselves in the Weathermen, whose actions as reported in the media led conservatives to generalize about all antiwar protestors. Conservatives were not waiting to be enlightened by a radical vanguard. What moved them, what their attitudes were, could not have been more different. They decorated their hard hats with flag decals and the motto, “FOR GOD AND COUNTRY.” They built the schools that protestors wanted to burn down. They felt deep antipathy toward elites, especially radical elites with college draft deferments. Many of
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