I’m in my 50’s. I don’t think you would have liked it all that much.
First, we didn’t have the internet. So to get your radical conspiracy theory nonsense you would have to find one of the little publishers of a nut job newsletter and pay the fellow to send insanity to your mailbox. Instead of dozens, or even hundreds of websites to constantly reinforce your radical nonsense.
Fascists and Nazi’s were denounced, not encouraged. They were free to march, the Courts had to say so. But they were not loved and appreciated.
White Supremecists and Sepretists were viewed with disdain. People eschewed the message, generally speaking.
Conservatives believed in smaller government, during the campaign. They never actually did anything when elected.
AIDS was the turning point. When the Conservatives called it a Gay Disease, and ignored it for almost a decade, that was the death blow for the Conservative Movement of the era.
It was a different time. Radical Conservatives of that era wanted to isolate those with AIDS in Quarantine to keep them from infecting others. Conservatives today, act as if Social Distancing was locking them up in Concentration Camps.
No, you wouldn’t have liked it very much. You wouldn’t have found the kindred souls you draw strength from easily. You might have found some in the mountains of Idaho, where White Radicals went to create Minority Free zones. But the majority would reject your idealism because it was the opposite of what our Nation stood for.
