The Common Good November-December 1999  A Declining Force  by S.
J. Carr | November-December 1999  An inside look at the fall of
the Religious Right  Some books should be read simply for what
they say; others for who has written them, and why. Given the
circumstances of America’s Christian Right nowadays, Blinded By
Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? brilliantly
exemplifies the latter.  Authors Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson were
once senior figures in the Moral Majority. Twenty years after
that first great dreadnought of the Christian Right was
launched, and more than a decade after its sinking, they are now
haunted by two questions: What happened? What now?  Thomas
answers the first with unvarnished bluntness: "Two decades after
conservative Christians charged into the political arena,
bringing new voters and millions of dollars with them in hopes
of transforming the culture through political power, it must now
be acknowledged that we failed."  That’s the book’s—if you
will—"political frame," to which D