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The ERA battle was one of those huge cultural battles that has sadly been forgotten by history. It wasn't until years later later that I realized what a momentous uphill fight that Schafley pulled off in the 70s. Had the left succeeded, all this garbage we have now like "transgender restrooms" would have probably invaded our society much sooner.

Schafley has put out some cringeworthy endorsements in her old age, but her legacy is pretty secure as one of the greatest female conservative grassroot leaders in recent decades. She was one of the most instrumental figures in getting us Goldwater and later on, Ronald Reagan.

On a related note... another similarly forgotten battle from that time period (early 70s) is the left ending up on the "wrong side of history" over their ridiculous push to try and force "racial harmony" by busing kids to schools nowhere near them that had a different racial makeup. (Perhaps the lefties were trying to overcompensate over the embarrassment of the Dixiecrats opposing desegregation tooth and nail a decade earlier). In any case, forced racial busing was one of the stupidest ideas ever, conservatives at the time were right to oppose it, and the left resorted to calling us nasty racists and bigots and every name in the book until the plan was abandoned and nothing more was ever said about it again. My pipe dream is some Hollywood movie is made exposing the idiocy of the left's "racial busing" idea in the early 70s and the vile tactics they tried to use to smear decent conservatives who pointed out it wouldn't work.