Conservative Christians in the West Align with America's enemies:

[Dawson Leery]

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/07/10/why-trumps-nostalgia-voters-support-his-embrace-of-putin/#.WWTgpXeUkWM.twitter

"Notice how Putin’s language about the West echoes the concerns expressed by the white Christian world of Trump’s nostalgia voters.

[Putin] hurled splenetic attacks against the culturally decadent, spiritually desiccated “Euro-Atlantic.” He warned against the fetishization of tolerance and diversity. He described the West as “infertile and genderless,” while Russian propaganda derided Europe as “Gayropa.” At the heart of Putin’s case was an accusation of moral relativism. “We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization,” he said at a conference in 2013. “They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious, and even sexual … They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.” By succumbing to secularism, he noted on another occasion, the West was trending toward “chaotic darkness” and a “return to a primitive state.”

As Foer goes on to explain, those views line up perfectly with Trump’s white nationalist wing, headed up by Steve Bannon. He notes what the chief White House strategist said to a conservative Catholic think tank in 2014.

“We, the Judeo-Christian West, really have to look at what [Putin’s] talking about as far as traditionalism goes,” Bannon said. He shared Putin’s vision of a world disastrously skidding off the tracks—“a crisis both of our Church, a crisis of our faith, a crisis of the West, a crisis of capitalism.”

[Jake Stern]

1. It's both fascinating and sickening:

conservatives wax poetic about "freedom" but fawn over an unabashed strongman.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. All about the gays

As soon as Putin started torturing and murdering homosexuals in Russia he became idolized by the Christian Right in America. Thay are hoping to create an America where gays are tortured and murdered en masse.

[leftstreet]

3. Make the globe white again!

Oh wait. It never has been

All their bullshit talking points about faith and traditions is just code for

WHITE CAPITALISTS ONLY

(No brownish people who might tend toward icky socialism and shit)

[Initech]

4. Fuck the nostalgia voters.

[Dawson Leery]

5. kick