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Picture this: A prominent Republican speaks at one of the country's most liberal enclaves, The University of California at Berkeley. Not only is it a full house, he gets a standing ovation.
In that speech, from April of last year, Sen. Rand Paul, calling the intelligence community "drunk with power." Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, , was there at the event and remembers thinking "Wow, this is different."
But a funny thing happened on the way to 2016 鈥� and if you doubt it, then you haven't turned on the TV in the past 48 hours: Republican candidates are running to the right on social issues.
Is this 鈥� as some have put it 鈥� a resurrection of the religious right in presidential politics? William Martin is a senior fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston. He's also the author of "."
About 40 percent of Republicans say they are evangelical or born-again Christians, Martin says. We don't hear phrases like "religious right" anymore, Martin says, "part of that reason is because the religious right has simply become a major part of the Republican Party."
