You can recruit the populace conservatism for the interests of corporate conservatism that the two things can be married into one unholy union.

The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand.

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

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

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

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.

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