While more average US citizens and service members recognized the folly in greater numbers through time because of it.

It was the somewhat more extreme faction of the anti-war crowd that would have been in favor of a revolution of some kind, mainly because Nixon needed to be toppled ASAP without a doubt, they were just the most disruptive when it comes to "whatever it takes."

That's why the old saying was coined, "The revolution will not be televised."