As user4012 pointed out, this brand of extremism, which doesn't have political goals that fall into more established political boundaries (
literal national boundaries), saw decades of high - amount and high - level funding from the Saudis, primarily, to build up to this point.
To me, a
National Book Award winner ought to be pushing the novel form in some way and Whitehead certainly did that with the railroad made
literal and the story transcending traditional time
boundaries while still having a linear narrative.