> Especially in the USA with its huge number of religious followers, in Europe (depends on which part) maybe not so much? The unity of views on many, many diff

> Especially in the USA with its huge number of religious followers, in Europe (depends on which part) maybe not so much? The unity of views on many, many different topics among followers of a single political party would be vanishingly unlikely unless they were taking their beliefs and talking points from their fellow party members rather than thinking for themselves. This is not a US specific thing. Normal people don’t reason from principle, they reason coalitionally, based on the two most important questions in politics Who, Whom?