Always With an Eye to the Great Return”: Normalcy, Democracy, and the anti-Vietnam War Movement

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Brief Overview

This paper interrogates appeals to normalcy in the wake of the election of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, unpacking the tension between this appeal and the posture of resistance, employing the anti Vietnam War movement as a case study.

Author

• Maxwell Burkey, Kean University