Although the liberal protest movement of the 1960s was a revolution of sorts,it facilitated it’s own death and a strong conservative backlash that I would argue may still be continuing today. The protest movement, though precedent-setting, would be the last straw for the silent, and conservative, majority. I believe that Kent state, Jackson state, the events at the 68 democratic national convention and the deaths of MLK and Robert f. Kennedy caused so much anguish and uncertainty that those who were protesting Vietnam at home were seen as the culprits, the ones who stirred the water and caused social unrest. Soon, the liberal era ended, Nixon was elected, and, though watergate lead to a democrat's election [carter], the conservative backlash continued with Reagan, both Bush sr. and jr. and even Clinton, who was a fairly moderate democrat. Is Obama an end to the liberal era, or simply an anomoly, to be replaced with a conservative president and the continuation of the conservative majority?