Evangelical political engagement never disappeared after Scopes

Evidence

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM tells us that fundamentalists and evangelicals retreated from public view and political engagement after the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, or with the end of Prohibition in 1933, or out of a desire to focus on individual soul-saving, or due to various combinations of the above, only to reappear on the national stage in the 1970s, seemingly out of nowhere. But as we will see, the roots of a militarized and politicized evangelical masculinity stretch back to earlier in American history. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 26