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My hope is that what we're seeing is more of a death rattle. It's not new that a significant minority is pushing for theocracy - it was the case when we wrote the Constitution, and it's a battle we've been fighting ever since. The Puritans you've probably heard about were exiles from England, where they briefly overthrew the monarchy under Cromwell and then got deposed themselves. Most of the more influential founding fathers were not all that religious - mostly deists and don't-bother-me-with-its rather than atheists - but it was still a fight to limit the Puritans' influence.
My sense is that the theocrats lost ground through most of the 20th century, from the Scopes "Monkey" Trial through the atom bombs to the counterculture movement of the 1960s, when newspapers printed headlines that "God Is Dead." About that same time, though, theocrats started lashing out - perhaps in panic - against that counterculture, against the Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1970s, the GOP got Catholic and Protestant fundamentalists to unite as a voting bloc behind the modern anti-abortion movement. Those weaponized "single issue voters" did claw back some influence in the 1980s, and of course we're recovering from another claw back period now, likely inspired by expanding LGBTQ rights and eight years under a black president.
My hope now is, as u/VitaminZebra said, they're overplaying their hand. They're clearly very worried in Texas. Trump tried more than once to rally the military to his side, and the Joint Chiefs weren't having it, which is encouraging. The current makeup of the courts is troubling.
How do we prevent the worst? Show up at local elections, every year. Run for office, or find good candidates and convince them to run for office. The more people actually participate, the harder it is to game the system, and the more resilient the system will be against more coup attempts.
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