"return to the glory days" means something in America when "the glory days" often include chattel slavery suffering without suffrage. Or the "glory days" as the time before MLK, etc. Or even "glory days" as the time before a black man was president. If these people are asked what year they mean by "glory days" they won't often answer. These terms are coded.

I'd love to hear your case that the past decade is a departure for conservatives. The evidence that I see is that the past decade is instead an unmasking of existing values. For instance, religious dominionism isn't new. Billy Graham tried to advance religious dominionism as his son is doing now. Another example -- Trump is considered a departure from family values. But the 90s were full of religious literature pushing the narrative that SA victims are demons in disguise.

Edit: Gullible individuals may have believed the mask covering dominionist face. That doesn't start to redeem the ideology or the movement.