[rajivjain]

The Economist published article in this week's edition contrasting the rise of the current left/right fervor to relative decline of the religious fervor. The accompanying image captures this really well - https://www.economist.com/img/b/1000/563/90/sites/default/fi....

The full article is here -https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/03/27/religious...

[lalaland1125]

I'm not sure this is actually that good of an explanation. Europe has much lower levels of church attendance and doesn't have heavily partisan politics.

[worker767424]

Interesting timing. The Atlantic had an article arguing the same thing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america...