Go and read this interview with Mark Crispin Miller.

The movement really wants to take us back to some time prior to the Enlightenment - back to an imaginary past predating the rise of capitalism itself (and, of course, the rise of socialism). That longing differentiates the hard-core members of the movement from the various corporate powers that are just trying to exploit the whole reactionary impetus for profit's sake.

Critics on the left, I think, are often prone to minimize the former, to read the entire crisis simply in economistic terms, and write the Christo-fascists off as mere fringe-dwellers whom the corporate powers are carefully manipulating. That critique is itself a rationalist projection, as such critics can't imagine, or won't accept, that irrational actors can wield power successfully, and for irrational reasons. In any case, those on the left who argue thus are not sufficiently informed. The Christo-fascist movement has its own agenda, and in realizing it has made tremendous progress (as it were) in Washington. Esther Kaplan's book, With God on Their Side, makes this quite clear, as does Stephenie Hendricks' important monograph, Divine Destruction, which explores the theocratic basis of Bush/Cheney's anti-environmentalism. Michelle Goldberg's also working on a book that I, for one, can't wait to read.

I can't wait to read Michelle's book, either. And I am going to read Miller's books, as well.

Go read the whole thing. It'll get your attention.