How Fringe Christian Nationalists Made Abortion a Central Political Issue

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7. This is an important article and should be shared widely

I think this quote captures exactly my experience growing up in evangelical circles in the 80's and what we have seen play out in our politics as evangelicals have risen to prominence.

From the beginning, the New Right sought radical change. They would establish themselves “first as the opposition, then the alternative, finally the government,” according to Conservative Caucus chair Howard Phillips. “We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them and eventually destroy them,” said Weyrich protégé Eric Heubeck, writing for the Free Congress Foundation. “We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. We will not give them a moment’s rest . . . We will use guerrilla tactics to undermine the legitimacy of the dominant regime.”