"This movement of the right seems motivated primarily by fear, and the need for religion to impose a necessary order on culture and government...NCR's own Thomas Reese, in analyzing Spadaro's article, agrees with much of it but encourages additional attention to how fear has contributed to where we are in our present political situation. Importantly, he argues that we must listen to those who are troubled by today's world, whether in Appalachia, Alabama, or Europe, and better discern what is motivating them."

I don't know about Europeans, but in Appalachia and Alabama it's definitely Fox News and hate radio that motivates those people to vote the way they do -  out of fear - mostly fear of "the other." Take away their conduits of fake news and we might have seen a very different outcome in the last presidential election. People in Europe who write about fundamentalism in America need to understand the reality of the right-wing fake news media influencing people's judgment. It matters.