The Religious Right’s major organizations collapsed once Reagan left office.

Evidence

In response, leaders of the Religious Right began to sound increasingly shrill. Falwell sparked controversy by characterizing AIDS as “the wrath of God upon homosexuals” and recommending that those with AIDS be quarantined. He also forged connections with some of Reagan’s most controversial overseas allies, including South Africa’s apartheid regime, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Philippines, and the brutal right-wing dictatorship in El Salvador. LaHaye, meanwhile, tried to claim credit for Reagan’s reelection, but his victory lap was derailed when it was revealed that Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, a South Korean cult whose followers were popularly called Moonies, was one of LaHaye’s largest donors. After the 1986 midterms, LaHaye closed down his American Coalition for Traditional Values. Falwell’s Moral Majority disbanded in 1989. By the end of Reagan’s second term, in the absence of a common enemy, the power of the Christian Right appeared to be ebbing away. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 315

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A state-sponsored rival party collapsed once its government patron switched sides — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 585; American mass associations collapsed across the board in the 1980s-1990s — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 93
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A state-sponsored rival party collapsed once its government patron switched sides — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 585; American mass associations collapsed across the board in the 1980s-1990s — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 93

Broader Connections

• American mass associations collapsed across the board in the 1980s-1990s #complicates (0.78) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 93