Dobson’s power was all too apparent to evangelicals themselves, for better and for worse. When asked about their greatest fear, Christian college presidents agreed: the possibility that James Dobson would turn against their school. The lesson was clear: “Don’t mess with Dobson or, by extension, with any of the moguls of the Religious Right.” With the decline of Falwell’s Moral Majority and Robertson’s Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family provided a critical fulcrum for evangelical political engagement.6
