1993 religious-conservative political mobilization targeted feminists and liberal social policy

Evidence

Newsweek featured Pat Robertson’s efforts to build a new generation of “religious conservatives” to win control of the Republican Party. Oliver North, favored to win the Virginia GOP nomination for the Senate, sent out a fundraising letter stating that an “arrogant army of ultrafeminists dominates U.S. politics.” — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 52

Categorization

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