Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."

America is going to start happening outside of the parties.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

What the Cold War did was provide a fairly clearly defined enemy and it's easy to organize around that.

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things.