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.

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 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.

My favorite forgotten President in American history is James Buchanan, who in defending really robust and sharp-elbowed debates said, "I like the noise of democracy. I like the sound of people in the streets making noise."

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

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