Obey!

 Driving across the vast expanses of Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri makes one sympathetic to the idea of "flyover" country. It's...a lot. One thing that's striking is the quantity of religious billboards. There's a LOT of anti-abortion stuff, but there's also a lot of how God wants you to obey His laws and commandments. It's not a touchy-feely Jesus out in Kansas.

In some ways, this looks like the common thread between Trump - a twice divorced, serial adulterer from NYC who's never made a sincere trip to church in his life - and evangelicals who believe God demands obedience. They are both explicitly authoritarian. Racist? Sure, but I think the racism is adjacent as much as motivational. Black and Brown people are scary because they represent the horde of democrats and Democrats who are going to deny them their rightful place at the top of the hierarchy.

The sick bastard in Jacksonville notwithstanding, most of them are not animated by their racism, they are animated by their demand for obedience: from their kids, from the culture, from their women. And they extend that obedience to the leader of their cult.

It's disturbingly un-American out there in the heartland.