re: #237 HappyWarrior
In started in the early 70’s when the religious right was still percolating as an organizing structure, and political strategists in the GOP, after successfully swung the Southern Strategy, took in the politically ambitious religious right leaders.
However, they really didn’t take control of the GOP machinery until Reagan. Reagan himself may not really have cared, but RWR was the Trojan Horse for the final destruction of the old GOP.