We can end up seeing the government fill (badly) the gap left when the church gets weak. Eventually the shortcomings of such an approach will become apparent — chiefly among them the tendency to political venality. But the Lord will let it happen as “better than nothing.”
It will take a revival to overcome this sort of folly.
The government has been putting the Church out of business since it launched “The Great Society”; it has removed them from much of the healthcare, education, and charitable works with taxpayer-funded competition in all three.