Hello. I'm not that old and I don't really remember the religious right that well. I think that comparisons between them and the modern SJWs could be useful, but there is one thing that I don't understand about them that could make or break the usefulness of the comparison. Did the religious/evangelical right have the same influence in academia and the media that SJWs have? I know they had politicians, protestant churches, lobbyists, and christian media, but can you really make a one-to-one comparison between that and Silicon valley, higher education, Hollywood, a good chunk of the news media, the progressive movement, and so on?
Also, what I want to know is what is going to replace SJWs. I don't want them to be replaced by a gang of right wing faggots that are going to sperg out so hard that the democrats take power and turn America into a one-party socialist state. Is there a way to identify these people and deal with them before they become a problem?
The Religious Right didn't control the narrative quite as much as the SJW Left currently does, but that's mainly because it originated as a pre-internet movement and the media landscape was different back then.
Even after internet came about in the 90's and 2000's, social media as we know it wasn't really a thing and the internet was a lot less corporate or consolidated, and before the mid-2000's, the internet was considered a joke by mainstream America and was seen as a nerd thing (and nerd culture was not fetishized and glorified like it is today)
Academia hated them deeply (outside of explicitly Christian universities like Liberty or Bob Jones) but the colleges and universities were leftist hotbeds even back then and didn't have as much influence on the youth culture as they do now since less people went to college back in the 80's and 90's.
Hollywood tried to ignore the Religious Right as best as possible and the news media would pander to them if they could make an extra buck from the higher ratings that sensationalism usually brings.
Geraldo Rivera had his infamous TV special about Satanic cults that is still one of the highest-rated (in the Nielsen sense of the word) television broadcasts in history and there was a lot of national sensationalism over incidents such as the McMartin Preschool Trials and the West Memphis Three.
Even after the Satanic Panic ended nationally, it still continued unimpeded in the Bible Belt, as seen by the sensationalist coverage of the Lilieid Murders and how five of the six convicted teenagers* were essentially screwed over by the Satanic Panic idiocy, with the local media coverage being the worst.
And unlike the West Memphis Three, those kids are still locked away in prison serving life sentences without any possibility of parole.
The reason why the Religious Right got big at first was partly as a backlash against the excesses of the New Left in the 60's and 70's and partly because soccer mom liberals like Tipper Gore and Joe Lieberman actively worked with the Religious Right, motivated by "think of the children" sentiments. Around that same time, the Religious Right worked closely with radical sex-negative feminists in anti-pornography campaigns.
The music industry fought back, as hard rock and heavy metal was often targeted by the Religious Right, and tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons were also targeted heavily.
After Clinton got into office and a lot of the Satanic Panic stuff was officially debunked by the FBI, it stopped being a national issue but was still strong in the Bible Belt regions (Deep South, rural Midwest, and Appalachia) and thanks to guys like Pat Buchanan, the Republican Party still heavily pandered to the Religious Right in the 90's and the Religious Right also became more closely aligned with the Neoconservative movement in the late 90's and early 2000's.
The Religious Right came back with a vengeance in the early 2000's with Bush getting elected and for a while, it seemed that Democrats and liberals would work with the Religious Right again in the wake of 9/11.
Unfortunately, this fell apart quickly and when combined with the many failures of the Bush Administration (War On Terror, Patriot Act, Great Recession) it led to the backlash in the form of 2010's SJW Culture and the Republicans as a whole ditching the Religious Right on the national level once Trump hit the scene.
*-Only one kid did the killings (Jason Bryant) and he was the one who showed the most psychological issues and had the fewest social ties to the other five kids.
A lot of the Satanism stuff that the courts used against them came from his testimony, which is now believed to counter the fact that all the others who testified basically pinned him as the killer and that the killings were his idea. The fact that these kids were mostly Goths and social outcasts in rural Appalachia did not help matters.