The lefty-hippie is a myth as Reagan's welfare queen.

The left employed a kind of discipline that hippies ignored. Many on the left emerged
as conservatives in their left-ness. This was true of the CPUSA.

Conrad, one of the reasons Pete Seeger was so attacked was that he was popular
with people of different political persuasions and thus considered dangerous by
right-wingers of his time. He could reach out beyond his perceived ideology which was
magnified by his detractors for political reasons. Pete never sang to just his own tribe.
He reached many people. And guess what, he still does.

One of his big fans was Nelson Rockefeller.

Conrad, Nixon and Bush were politicians. Pete is an artist/performer/songwriter.
He transcends a narrow ideology that you attribute to him.