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

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."

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

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.

Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.