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Just as the Bushies, evangelicals and their media pundits saw an everlasting bright future several years ago, now commentators on the other side are proclaiming the former's "sundown." Yes, these things come and go - and come again - as U.S. history from the late 19th century to the present demonstrates. What's missed, statistical methods aside, is that short of massive social change this is fundamentally a conservative capitalist country, with its mass support based on conservative/evangelical white Protestantism, buttressed by conservative Catholics and libertarians (and the military and police). One only need imagine what American fascism looks like (and has been), and the need to keep those forces active even if realtively subdued, to understand the silliness of talking about sundowns.
