James Watt was the first prime example of a radical right wing religious wacko (NeoCon) to not be publicly shy about it. He was Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior. He was ahead of his time however and finally his foot got stuck in his mouth once too often.
Watt may have been one of the "front men" or "scouts" that the neocon movement put in place to see how vulnerable Americans were to their Dummy Dust.
Watt would be very popular today among the wingers and religious fundies.