Here is a YouTube Video that may help explain why America is in such a nightmarish political situation of sharply contrasted bipolar and virtually unsolvable differences in politics and the apparent RW 'Fundamentalist' takeover and resurgence of a kind of fascism that has seems to have sprouted and is starting to take root.
Note: This video was made and posted to YouTube before Supreme Cort Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and was replaced by Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett.
How Evangelicals became Republicans: