"Culture Underwrites Our Politics"

"Conservatives see this as an existential threat. That's an important phrase: They see it as an existential threat to their way of life, to the things that they hold sacred. So while the earlier culture war really was about secularization, and positions were tied to theologies and justified on the basis of theologies, that's no longer the case. You rarely see people on the right rooting their positions within a biblical theology or ecclesiastical tradition. [Nowadays,] it is a position that is mainly rooted in fear of extinction."

Zack Stanton at Politico interviews James Davison Hunter.