I was 19 in 1968 and saw the riots, hippies, black militants, drug proliferation, chaos on the campuses and degeneration of religion into feelgood and realized all that was alien to me.
Communism was on the march worldwide. The New Left in America was its ally.
Then I discovered a conservative named William F. Buckley Jr. and started reading his stuff. I became a conservative that year. The thrill of reading Buckley’s works and deciding, “it’s OK to be conservative” is with me to this day.
Oh yes, 1968 was also the year of gun control laws and the prevailing view that citizens ought not be allowed to own handguns and that there must be national gun registration and federal licensing of owners. Lyndon Johnson that worthless b@stard wanted to disarm us not for safety but class warfare revenge against his political opponents.
Today it’s world Islam on the march and the same Lefties ally themselves with it. In that sense, 1968 is still with us.
The “Soixante-Retards” in France basically wound up taking over the French government years later. Ditto for the other European radicals throughout Western Europe.
Ironically, it’s the countries that were behind the Iron Curtain then, that don’t have these problems.
I discovered him at about the same time. Although I found his fake English accent annoying, I started reading his magazine National Review as well as Human Events.