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Lame and myopic. The things youâre talking about were products of decades of liberal cultural hegemony, not a bunch of irrelevant televangelists you found annoying back in the day. What you viewed as power on the part of fundies was a death rattle, people who had lost the culture war obsessing over petty shit to cope with losing. Liberal media made mountains out of these molehills then as now.
Look beyond who was loudest about Pokeyman being the devil on TV (btw I would vastly prefer it if letter-writing baptist grandmas were the moral scolds of today, instead of liberals who can and will use the courts to make my kid trans) and to who was actually progressing the culture to its current place.
If that's your lame and myopic take on the Religious Right, then I take it you grew up in a very liberal city or blue state in a fairly well-to-do household. In the more blood red regions of the Bible Belt, the fundies did use the courts and law enforcement to ruin innocent people's lives (just ask the West Memphis Three) and the complaining about Pokemon and Harry Potter was the fundies just as they were entering their death throes.
The last president to really rely on the Religious Right was George W. Bush, and that was more in the 2000 Election than the 2004 one.
Both candidates were fairly weak on the Democrat side but Bush still had enough goodwill from 9/11 and the War on Terror that he was going to win 2004 no matter what, especially against someone as weak and unliked as John Kerry. Bush's pandering to the fundies about gay marriage and evolution was just him hedging his bets to give him a slight advantage in Florida and Ohio, the perennial swing states to watch for.
But hey, maybe if you simp harder for Yahweh, God of the Hebrews and the moral precepts of the Torah then maybe Fuentes-senpai will notice you and take you to the Spring Dance before giving you a handjob
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