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Authoritarian Leaders = Evangelical Role Models - Coggle Diagram
Authoritarian Leaders = Evangelical Role Models
Donald Trump
Trump is an authoritarian who will not hesitate to limit civil rights and violate the law to inflict his will upon the American people.
Several white nationalists and white Christians see Trump's demolishment of democratic norms and institutions as the only path forward to maintaining their place in society
White Christians are anti-trans rights, thus Trump preventing trans-people from being in the military is something they approve.
Evangelicals are anti-black, thus Trump labeling civil protesters, who were protesting the death of George Floyd, as terrorists isn't something they'll disapprove of.
Vladimir Putin
Putin's Russia is a white country where religious, ethnic, and racial minorities are not allowed a central place in culture or government.
Several in the U.S. Christian right say that America has failed to be a role model for the rest of the world - that liberalism, unrestrained, has brought the great nation to its knees.
Evangelicals believe that America was made by and for white Christians, so any other group that is neither white or Christian is seen as a threat.
Evangelicals believe that the government should only support white Christians.
Evangelicals look towards Russia as a model for transforming the United States.
Viktor Orban
Orban, the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, wants to create "an illiberal state."
Evangelicals believe that American can only be great again if it followed Orban's lead.
Orban demonized immigrants and closed Hungary's borders; since evangelicals are anti-immigrant, they are not opposed to this
Orban created a constitutional reform that was "right to life", which would severely limit abortion or outlaw it entirely; since evangelicals are against abortion, they looked up to said reforms.
Another one of Orban's reforms defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman; evangelicals are opposed to same sex marriage, thus this reform is something that pleased them
Evangelicals believed that America was losing its "city on a hill" status when Obama provided civil rights to trans-people, made employers' health insurance plans cover contraceptives, and made same sex marriage legal; therefore Obama was the opposite of a role model
Evangelicals voted for Ronald Reagan as he enlisted the support of young Christian right organizations and used the phrased "shining city on a hill."