The Religious Right dominance in the GOP in the 1990s?

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

So we all know the story about how the Northeast went to Clinton by huge margins in 1992 and especially even more so in 1996. My question is, what factors attributed to secular voters believing that the Republicans were extreme evangelicals? Were there any big players (besides Pat Buchanan) that harped the religion instrument? Was the Republicans party much more divided on abortion? What would have occurred if Dole had chosen a pro choice running mate?

[Beet]

The Christian Coalition was a huge factor in the mid-1990s. The Promise Keepers had a huge rally on the mall in 1998. In 2000, the Christian Coalition made 50 million calls for Bush. As the 2000s wore on, they were gradually replaced by James Dobson's Focus on the Family, but the religious right retained huge power. It was not until the late 2000s that the religious right's movement waned.

Frankly, I thought they were going to come back. It was said the religious right was finished after the Jim Bakker televangelist scandal in 1987, but they roared back after that. Then, it was said they were finished after overreaching on Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998, but they roared back again. When they started to decline in the late 2000s, I was thinking "They'll roar back." But they haven't.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Individual Evangelical pastors have, over time, led their flocks away from supporting these movements; they drained support from their churches financially, and they also diverted Christians from the task Jesus commissioned them to perform (making Disciples of all persons) toward a secular agenda of supporting politicians that frequently gave lip service to their concerns, but did little to advance their social conservatism in public policy because it would involve trading political capital needed for tax cuts and measures corporate interests wanted.

The Religious Right is now part of the GOP Establishment.  Don't kid yourselves.  The progressive secularization of American society has made this so.  The Democratic Party has actively embraces rampant secularism, and brands Evangelicals as "intolerant" (and all that implies these days).  That kind of leaves Evangelicals as having little motivation to support Democrats.  Trump may have lived like a heathen, but he's done no less for religious conservatives than any other Republican they've supported, and he knows he needs them in 2020.