Alexander says: "Because Christian fundamentalism is a specifically American (or perhaps anglophone) phenomenon, Europe has only the first kind of conservative."

Yup, it has become a specifically US American phenomenon. The religious zealots, thank God, left Europe when they feared that their kids might become  influenced and thus, in their eyes, corrupted by the exposure to a too liberal European culture.

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819