It is important however that we remember where all of this investigation has come from and what it has served. I would say that it goes back even before the 60s - all the way to the managed economies of the New Deal and the threat of revolution arising out of the ashes of World War I and later the Great Depression. In the end we'll never go back to the days before the New Deal, when the capitalists were allowed to run totally rampant and roughshod across the world. The world has gotten too small and the limits are looming too large. The prosecutors have been given more power than ever before.
Prisons are one of our biggest growth industries.
In the long run there are too many factors for anyone to control. There is both bad news and good news in the Culture Wars. On the one hand the Republicans have successfully toppled a president. On the other hand, they had to do it by public prosecutor since they couldn't do it in the realm of electoral politics. A party that prays every election for a low voter turn-out is a party with feet of clay.