"Fundamentalist" is shorthand for my ignorance, of course, as is "evangelical." Not that I have a desire to know firsthand what it's like to attend a small enveloping community dominated by a cult leader with enough money to rent a space, which is how I think of the galaxy of Southern churches out of which the support for Trump and Moore emerges naturally. It's a little ridiculous for those of us without any inclination to Christianity to go after the lax moral framework of such folk (though much less ridiculous for those who still practice mainstream forms of Christianity or other God-fearing faiths), in my opinion, because so much of their practice and preaching has to do with the salvation of undeserving sinners, and so little of it with the responsibilities of probity, let alone charity. And that offered salvation might be what draws the angry, the despairing and the depressed to those who will accept them as they are, so we, who fear not the Lord and are happy with our lives as they are, are not very likely to turn them in any other direction. Does that matter for our ability to persuade them politically? I think it does. Accordingly, I've pretty much given up on that way out of the hell they and their president are creating, have created.
My review of The Color of Law , a book by Richard Rothstein : This carefully documented, eloquently argued history of U.S. government policies of overt racial segregation post-Jim Crow, and of the results of these policies, should be required reading, at least for all white Americans who've been inculcated with the myth of "de facto" segregation over the past fifty years (my lifetime). This is a book that breaks the narrative of illusions and lies essential to Trump's and Bannon's racist propaganda -- and ultimately, the facts of this book are part of what must be used to break the spell of lies propping up not only them, but the system of thought that allows white people no different from myself to believe in both gun-supported self-defense of themselves, and police war against black men who presumptively "appear" to be armed criminals.
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