The religious right redefined the post-Cold War era as a cultural war

Evidence

Buchanan didn’t unseat Bush, but he did shift the Republican Party farther to the Right. The Cold War might have ended, but at the opening night of the Republican National Convention, Buchanan declared that a different sort of war had begun: “There is a religious war going on in this country … a cultural war as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itself. This war is for the soul of America.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 323

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the ‘culture war’ framing that became the organizing language of the Religious Right after the Cold War.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal intellectuals framed the wartime era as a moral and spiritual crisis requiring diagnosis — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 204; A transnational religious right seeks to replace democracies with faith-based ethno-states — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 959; Premature declarations of the religious right’s death confused progress narratives with institutional continuity — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 287