Part 2 examines mainstream conservative support for the ideas of the religious right, dating back to the 1980s and 1990s. It examines two major publications of the time, The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics by Richard John Neuhaus in 1997, and The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom in 1987.

Race and the Religious Right

Part 3 examines the enduring racism in the agenda of the Religious Right. The chapter suggests that the agenda of the Religious Right is racism wrapped in the language of religious freedom, undermining both the First and the 14th amendments to the Constitution. It further exposes conservative efforts to mainstream the radical racist right by wrapping their views in scholarly garb with an examination of Dinesh D’Souza’s influential book, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multicultural Society, published in 1995.

The lliberal Left, a Mirror of the Religious Right

Part 4 examines the relationship between what we now call “the Illiberal Left,” or “wokesim,” and the Religious Right. The Illiberal Left is every bit as anti-Democratic as the Religious Right. Where the Religious Right shrouds its intent in religion, the Illiberal left shrouds it in “social justice.” Each builds their ideological movement on an epistemology that attacks and undermines that of our Enlightenment legacy.