Here’s my take, in a nutshell...
The 1900’s began with a significant and startling shift away from faith in God towards faith in man and his government.
Fast-forward to the 50’s - “Happy Days”. Americans generally felt fine with “I love IKE” during the 50’s, not having yet significantly felt the results of FDR’s unconstitutional “New Deal” nor the souring taxes under Ike’s reign.
Reagan and the “conversation movement” rose in the 60’s startled at the socialist shift in the government.
In the 70’s Nixon equivocated and self-destructed and Carter got everyone pissed off.
Reagan in the 80’s brought “Morning in America.” However, Americans still hadn’t figured out that individual autonomy and state sovereignty were the key to America’s freedom and future even though Reagan ran on those ideals. It was more like, “We’ve got the right guy” but he was in charge of a rogue government.
Late 80’s through 2016: Essentially 30 years of the loony Left growing government and ignoring the Constitution and state sovereignty with the grand crescendo of Obama’s Anti-American Administration.
People are pissed, more than they were with Carter, but are they pissed enough to vote for state leaders who will throw off the shackles of unconstitutional federal government tyranny and refuse financial dependence on them anymore? At a deeper and significant but very relevant level, are enough ready to turn from trusting in man and his government to turn again to trusting in the Lord?
Those are the real questions IMO.
North Carolina just sued the Loretta Lynch and the “Justice” Department over its ridiculous assertion the federal government would shut off federal funds to NC if it didn’t let perverts in the bathrooms.
So some states have balls.
What is the “conversation movement”?