Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't glean the meaning of this partial (verbless) sentence? > Not the outcome envisioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but the one raisi

Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't glean the meaning of this partial (verbless) sentence? > Not the outcome envisioned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but the one raising the question addressed in this issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. Lapham’s Quarterly is highly regarded, so I would expect such non-sentences – especially at the start of a paragraph, complete with a drop-cap – to be culled by the editor (or author, who is in this case the same person). Or am I just not intelligent enough to understand this style of writing? (Even inserting a well-placed “is” does not clarify this sentence for me.) Aside, I’m surprised the article doesn’t touch on why fear is so delectable to the American palate. I suspect it’s that humans expect fear, like how we expect work, pain, hierarchy, and other objectively unpleasant things which we seek out when lacking, to restore balance to an otherwise saccharine existence. Americans in fact have very little to rightly fear, thus our lizard brains instinctively latch on to anything to fill that void in our lives.