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Oh, you'll get no argument here. I used to call the teabaggers the teabirchers since most of their ideas (and probably many of the members, too) were retreads from the John Birch Society.
I've also read some things in recent years that wrote about how what really turbocharged the right wing was not so much abortion (or at least abortion alone), but the fact that white flight schools that people were sending their kids to were coming under fire from the IRS, and that really lit a fire under the ass of sending them into action and to the polls, as well as forging an alliance with xtians. That was the 1970s - another big instance of this kind of thing, probably leading to Reagan and his radical agenda sweeping Washington.
I should say that Obama is one of the more visible and recent instances of this, and the backlash (in the form of Donnie) was probably all-too-predictable.
If you'd like to go down a rabit hole, checknout https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
It ties the CNP, the church, abortion, trump, the heritage foundation and few other threads together. It very lightly touches on the koch network, but that's another big source of recent ailments.
Thanks for rec; turns out I've already seen it. :)
I love rabbit holes, though, so if you have any more, throw them my way.
its a little older, and more effort, but Dark Money by Jane Mayer also gives some good explanation of how we got here.
Ah, the book. At first I was looking at the movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6633182/