03-12-2021, 06:18 AM
I wouldn't say that the counterculture created Reagan. Rather, both were parts of the same wave of individualism. The Modernist saeculum ended with two nightmares of extreme collectivism. Counterculture was inspired by revulsion against fascism (which focused on cultural collectivism) and libertarianism by revulsion against Bolshevism (focused on economic collectivism).