I was doing some reading on the Christian left, and honestly, I'm surprised that Evangelicals in America didn't take some of the crucial parts of Jesus's message- the whole "help the needy" part, for one- as literally as they took everything else. Inspiration aside, is there any point in American history that could lead to a modern-day conservative socialism or a variant of that ideal (i.e. Christian Democracy for a very watered-down version, and/or on the other extreme an outright socially-conservative communism).