Smith's perceived giant would be the modern religious right.  Smith ought to be of interest since he was one of the founding fathers of the movement according to author Glen Jeansonne.  Smith once sought the office of President of the United States forsaking his ordination as a minister in the Christian Church.  Much like Pat Robertson and Arkansas preacher Mike Huckabee, Smith felt led to another platform.
     Drawing his parallels form the folklore of Gulliver's giant, Smith believed the silent majority of American voters had not yet been aroused from slumber.  They, like Gulliver's giant, were held down by small impotent pygmies who held great sway over the giant by their evil and orchestrated efforts to harness and hold the great being.  Smith, founder of the famous Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, wrote, "We have been overrun with pygmies, poisoners and traitors.  Ten thousand organizations have sprung up for the purpose of crystallizing this shackling process, this porgram of bureaucratic regimentation, this innoculation of treason's poison.  To the short sighted and faithless, America has been drugged, opiated, shackled and subdued." A few years later leaders like the late TV preacher James Kennedy reasoned with his faithful followers that the ACLU, which he called the anti Christian liberal union, was out to destroy Christianity. The preception by James Dobson's crowd is that a small faction in the nation keeps the lid on the majority opinion which they represent.
     In an earlier publication Smith wrote that the number one project he had was to preserve the United States as a Christian Nation.  A project James kennedy and evidently John McCain would have been on board with.
     Smith listed several wake up calls he believed would awake the  sleeping giant to a call to action. One of the wake up calls was a campaign "organized to wipe out the name of Jesus Christ in relation to all tax-supported institutions."  The Falwells, Robertsons, and Dobson have taken this old proven fund raiser and raised it to new heights.  Smith believed the Jews in America were behind this. (www.stormfront.org see archives under Gerald L.K. Smith) No longer riding under the banner of Smith, Father Coughlin and Bill Hargis' anti semitism, the modern version has found other reliable sources of evil.
     The modern group tends to blame another of Gerald's pygmies.  This is the claim  that the world has now come to view Joseph McCarthy as being vindicated.  Billy Hargis wrote in his newspaper that modern Soviet documents have revealed the secret Communist plots laying just under the surface in America that McCarthy uncovered.  The John Birch Sociey has openly stated that McCarthy had been vindicated.  (www.livingston.net/wilkyjr/link20.htm) In Jeansoone's, GERALD L.K.SMITH MINISTER OF HATE, the book claims Smith believed McCarthy would be the man who saved America.
     Another concern that Smith had was about a movement, led by Communists, which was an effort "to destroy racial self respect."  To Smith that meant that white people were to lose their identity and heritage as different races rose up to claim portions of American culture.
     To those who might think I am stretching it a bit linking Smith's racism to the early religious right I assure you I am not alone in this.  A more recent point is the report that Al Mohler is now being promoted as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Mohler, a seminary president in the SBC has openly stated that white women need to be more fertile.  He stated such in Al's blog Aug. 15, 2005.  Some in the Dominion movement have given up on restructuring the society by legislation and have adopted the idea of expanding their base by reproduction. Thus the more births, the more future voters. Mohler stated that the cultures who birthed the nation are not keeping up with the other cultures in the country.
     Gerald Smith, who once in the 30s wrote Hitler asking for an audience, is buried under the 70 foot statue known as Jesus of the Ozarks.  Whether or not Gerald's giant exists is subject to a great deal of speculation today.  Some claim it lived a short life and is now dead.  A lot is at stake and lots of people are counting on their opinions about this giant propelling someone into office.