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The religious right long ago decided that opposition to abortion is the way they can declare every election to be a Flight 93 election, but as this article shows, that's a relatively recent (late 70s) innovation and pivot so they could get away from having to talk about race. /1
And before a gaggle of ignorant scolds show up to tell me "THIS WAS ALWAYS THE GOP," the Reps knew they had an evangelical problem even in the early 80s, when evangelicals were unhappy with - wait for it - Reagan. The GOP is a coalition, and these guys were always a problem. /2
Northern moderates like me coexisted with evangelicals because that's the nature of a coalition, but as the base shrinks, the evangelicals are more dominant, and there's no room in the GOP for us any longer. (Or in the Democratic Party, either, but that's a different problem.) /3
But the point of that article is to restate a truth that mod-cons always knew: The evangelicals always were about race, and that abortion was the crusade by which the evangelicals covered their own sins. "We have no choice but to defend Trump" is the latest version of that. /4x
