Trump’s Hard-Right Evangelical Adviser James Dobson Dies at 89

James Dobson, the child psychologist and radio personality who advocated for conservative social values and wielded immense political power, has died at 89. Dobson, who first gained prominence with his 1970 book Dare to Discipline, which advocated for teaching children “self-control” with corporal punishment, leveraged his resulting notoriety into founding the evangelical organization Focus on the Family. As a key architect of the religious right, he also co-founded the Family Research Council, an organization designated as an anti-LBGTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for propagating propaganda linking homosexuality to pedophilia and claiming the Democratic Party is run by “Jews.” Dobson later became ingrained in the upper echelons of the Republican Party and advised five d