Fundamentalists unified around common enemies despite internal class divisions

Evidence

“Fundamentalists” who embraced this market-driven revivalism included rabble-rousing populists and “respectable,” middle-class professionals, and tensions and infighting between and among these factions would characterize the movement for the next century. It was only through the identification of common enemies that fundamentalists were able to fashion a powerful (if unstable) identity. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 42

Categorization

• XREF: The enemy-unification mechanism echoes the reader’s earlier note on social capital and group identities formed against outsiders.