The Moral Majority formalized an already decade-long Christian nationalist politics

Evidence

In 1979, at the nudging of Goldwater campaign veterans Howard Phillips, Paul Weyrich, and Richard Viguerie, Falwell launched the Moral Majority, a political organization with the purpose of training, mobilizing, and “electrifying” the Religious Right, but he had been championing Christian nationalism throughout the 1970s. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s central analytical task: distinguishing the 1979 institutional launch from the longer cultural drift that Du Mez argues predates it — directly relevant to the continuity-not-hypocrisy thesis. — connects to: White Christian politics since the 1970s has leaned toward domination and control — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 209; January 6 climaxed years of accumulated Christian nationalist attitudes and grievances — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 128