Part of the problem is that they 'won', things like Prohibition were spearheaded by the religious left, then Roosevelts new deal, then civil rights.
Oh... I forget that the Prohibition actually got support from the left.
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Part of the problem is that they 'won', things like Prohibition were spearheaded by the religious left, then Roosevelts new deal, then civil rights.
IOTL the American political parties are divided between the Republicans, favoring less government interference in the economy and more government mandated morality, and the Democrats, favoring more government interference in the economy and less government mandated morality. Assuming that any major religious movement is going to be socially conservative, to have a leftist religious movement you need to have a party that is pro-government interference in both areas, versus a libertarian party that wants to keep government out of all areas.
This doesn't seem all that difficult, in fact this kind of party structure might make more sense than the current one. There should be a lot of potential for this, since the Republicans in the US actually started out as the more socially liberal party, and the switch was only really completed in the 1960's. If we can just keep the Republicans as the more pro-civil rights party that they were in the 1860's, the south will stay solidly Democratic, and perhaps infect the rest of the party with their more conservative social views.