I mostly agree with what you’re saying here, with two caveats. Firstly, I don’t think that books with sexually explicit images should be able to be checked out by children in libraries. (To be fair to you, I think we both know the current book banning thing goes beyond that.) There’s a limited amount of censorship that I do agree with the right on, but it’s for edge cases like that. I’m on the right and I oppose this flag burning policy, like I opposed Trump’s call to “open up the libel laws” and like I opposed the right wing calls to bring back the fairness doctrine during the Obama administration, as well as flag burning bans that were being called for at the time.

Secondly, that Satanic Panic stuff was more religious fanaticism than political propaganda, I don’t think we’ve seen the two syncretized to this level in a long time. Just because the religiously zealot nuts are MAGA people today doesn’t mean that religious fanaticism has always been tied to the hip with mainstream-ish political activism.