, conservatives were previously united by anti-communism, but with the end of the Cold War, the party lacked a uniting issue. When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention—with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform—many moderate

, conservatives were previously united by anti-communism, but with the end of the Cold War, the party lacked a uniting issue. When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention—with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform—many moderate

, conservatives were previously united by anti-communism, but with the end of the Cold War, the party lacked a uniting issue. When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention—with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform—many moderate

, conservatives were previously united by anti-communism, but with the end of the Cold War, the party lacked a uniting issue. When Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson addressed Christian themes at the Republican National Convention—with Bush criticizing Democrats for omitting God from their platform—many moderate

on. Except for Andrew Jackson, each burst of populist fervor ended badly. Our modern prophets are fundamentally different. Their dogma springs from Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, through James Dobson's Family Research Council, to the eerily omnipresent Fellowship and its C Street house. Ted Cruz's father,

there was Goldw=ter, "Mr. Conservative." Always first an= foremost a libertarian, he lashed out in the 1980s at the religious right=movement led by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. In the 1990s, orthorox conservatives denounced him as a liberal for supporting environmental protections and gay rights. Indeed,

e eventually adopted by Democrats and _ Republican administrations alike. They just didn’ t ca//it socialism. In January 2009, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson stated that God told him America is headed for veritable socialism as well as an economic rebound under President-elect Obama. “What the Lord was say

, unforgiving, even angry, and it frightened me. | never anticipated that my culturally enriched, intellectually sophisticated sons would be quoting Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. 123 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013623 The Freudian psychoanalyst of my younger days tried to write off these (to me) cataclysmic changes a