Summary of Anne Nelson's Shadow Network

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Protestant fundamentalism has dominated American society for the past two centuries, and it has been mobilized in the modern era.
#2 The 1960s was a transformative decade for the South, as the region was exposed to existential crisis for the first time. The Bible was under scrutiny, and theologians suggested that the Good Book was a profound work of literature rather than a chronicle of historical fact.
#3 The Southern Baptist Convention remained apart from other Protestant denominations during the war, and in 1962 the Supreme Court ended public school prayer. The fundamentalists were outraged.
#4 The 1960s saw a shift in the way the Baptist Church viewed its beliefs. While many conservatives were simply fed up with the liberal changes their church was undergoing, others saw it as a way to get power and push their conservative views.

Sujets

• Political opportunity

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 28 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669372851
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Anne Nelson's Shadow Network
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Protestant fundamentalism has dominated American society for the past two centuries, and it has been mobilized in the modern era.

#2

The 1960s was a transformative decade for the South, as the region was exposed to existential crisis for the first time. The Bible was under scrutiny, and theologians suggested that the Good Book was a profound work of literature rather than a chronicle of historical fact.

#3

The Southern Baptist Convention remained apart from other Protestant denominations during the war, and in 1962 the Supreme Court ended public school prayer. The fundamentalists were outraged.

#4

The 1960s saw a shift in the way the Baptist Church viewed its beliefs. While many conservatives were simply fed up with the liberal changes their church was undergoing, others saw it as a way to get power and push their conservative views.

#5

The church’s boards, agencies, and charities were reconstituted year by year, until they were uniformly conservative. Dissent was quelled. The new policies on homosexuality and abortion rights were a backlash against the church’s previous positions.

#6

The Southern Baptist Church’s activism benefited from a decline in membership among other Protestant churches. They began to extend their strategy from church to state, and aimed to establish theocracy, or government conducted through divine guidance.

#7

Some conservative evangelicals adhered to a philosophy called Dominionism, which aimed to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ by taking over civil structures.

#8

Weyrich, in an attempt to bring the radical right into the mainstream, founded the Heritage Foundation, the Republican Study Committee, and the American Legislative Exchange Council. He saw untapped potential in state-level politics, which the Democrats controlled.

#9

The New South provided Republicans with a new pool of voters to tap into, and Weyrich set out to make the Moral Majority a reality. He and his team offered the Southern Baptists a path to theocracy through the electoral process.

#10

The Dallas rally sparked a political movement across the South. By the mid-1980s, Southern Baptist annual conventions began to look like Republican precinct meetings.

#11

The Moral Majority was a new voting bloc that emerged in the 1980s. It was officially ecumenical, but its leadership urged its members to avoid controversy. Some of its followers showed a troubling tendency toward bigotry, which made them difficult to deal with in public relations matters.

#12

The theocracy envisioned by Pressler began to take shape in Texas, with the leaders of the Conservative Resurgence refining their other policy priorities: restricting abortion access and strengthening state government. They wanted to impose severe legal restraints on the right to abortion wherever possible.

#13

The movement needed money, and Weyrich looked to the business sector. He recruited Joseph Coors and Richard Scaife to back the Heritage Foundation, but there were many more fortunes to be mined.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The New Deal coalition united urban ward heelers with farmers battered by the Great Depression, but they also promoted the rights of African Americans, women, and Jews.

#2

The New Deal coalition, which consisted of the Democratic Party, was able to hold together through World War II. But as Americans settled back into a peacetime existence, the coalition developed fissures. The Democrats depended on the votes of the Solid South states, but Truman’s decision to add a civil rights plank to the Democratic Party platform threatened that support.

#3

The Democratic Party continued to promote a national civil rights agenda, and the southerners continued to resist. Many responded to school desegregation by creating so-called segregation academies, private schools that claimed tax-exempt status as nonprofit institutions.

#4

Direct mail was a way to circumvent the gatekeepers of the news media and deliver political material directly to the public’s mailbox. It was a highly effective fund-raising tool.

#5

The three principles that would guide the strategy of Council for National Policy for years to come were first, being right is irrelevant to political victory; second, the number and effectiveness of activists and leaders is determined by the political technology used by the side; and third, the number and effectiveness of activists and leaders is determined by the political technology used by that side.

#6

The first CPAC was held in 1977, and it was led by Ron Reagan. It offered panels on direct mail fund-raising and campaign techniques to its four hundred attendees. The inaugural keynote was delivered by California’s then governor, Ronald Reagan.