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I don't think the current conservative right can be called a counter-culture as they are now in charge but they come from a few. The Christian Right, courted by Ronald Reagan. The 'shock jocks' on talk radio, soon followed by the likes of Alex Jones with Infowars and the rest of the online radicals. The Tea Party, and then MAGA. They've all started from a position explicitly in opposition to the mainstream, which they define as wet, liberal, elitist, coporatist and more recently, woke. The current right are an uneasy coalition of these, with the more traditional right, pulled together by Trump.

In the end, every counter culture sells out. The rebel becomes 'The Man'. Then they become yesterday's man.

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