in short, yes. i think cornel west is pretty good on the basic framework, here, in _democracy matters_ ("constantinian" religion, etc.). the anti-statism goes back to early christianity (and that is itself traceable to jewish apocalyptic and the hebrew prophets). the book of revelation is all about state religious persecution and the comeuppance of the heathen oppressors. but when you get to constantine, the ideological terrains shifts pretty much irreversibly.
but in any case, notice that they still manage to cast themselves as anti-statist, although they are certainly theocratic and even while they have their man in the white house (himself operating in a reaganesque anti-gub'mint mode). it's very . . . flexible, this ideology. and it helps when you can see a liberal/secular elite as still (a) in charge of the fourth estate, and (b) threatening at any time to turn forward the clock and wipe out religion by doing things like banning the bible (?!?).
j
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