Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Authoritarian Leaders = Evangelical Role Models - Coggle Diagram
Authoritarian Leaders = Evangelical Role Models
The Defense of 'Christian Family Values'
“Orbán’s office ...noted that the two countries [Hungary and the U.S.] 'confirmed that historical traditions and Christian roots must also play an important role in modern governance.' (Posner)
“For the US Christian right, as for rising European authoritarians, human and civil rights protections for LGBTQ people, as well as hate crimes legislation, amount to persecution of 'traditional' Christians and 'suppression' of free speech.” (Posner)
“Vasadze... argued that “liberalism kills more people than fascism and communism” because of its tolerance for abortion.” (Posner)
“ In 2013, Hungary further amended the constitution to give recognition only to traditional families.” (Posner)
"Allan Carlson helped found the World Congress of Families to respond to what he called a shared crisis of declining marriage and fertility rates in the United States, Europe, and the former Soviet bloc.” (Posner)
Carlson said this in response to Obama's progressive politics, mirroring the outrage in the 70's over Carter's politics.
American Exceptionalism
"“the 'shining city on a hill' represented a nation that protected the 'traditional family' and the 'unborn' by ensuring that government was guided by biblical rather than secular values.” (Posner)
“Centuries later, as right-wing Christian activists took up anticommunism as an existential crusade, Ronald Reagan resurrected Winthrop’s words [City on a Hill], this time in the service of American exceptionalism.” (Posner)
“America’s founding by Christians seeking to escape religious persecution gave it a special status...a defender of democracy and religious freedom against the forces of totalitarianism.” (Posner)
Democracy as The Enemy of Christianity
(Posner 29:05) “They’ve [Christian Right] made a...seamless transition from being anti-communist to supporting these autocrats”
(Onishi 45:20) “White Christians and President Donald Trump now see Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and others as leaders of nations that are properly ordered with Christians at the top of hierarchy”
(Posner 19:11) “At the heart of it...there is a sense of an America that has been lost to liberalism and political correctness. But what it really is in their view is an America that has been lost to...democracy.”
The Christian Right conflates leftist human rights expansion and democracy.
“Mike Lee...demanded an investigation into “all funds associated with promoting democracy and governance.” (Posner)
“Lee mocked American efforts to bolster embattled civic institutions in fledgling democracies as 'the substance of a global re-education campaign, funded by American taxpayers...under the guise of innocuous sounding program titles like ‘democracy assistance,’ ‘government transparency,’ and ‘human-rights.’” (Posner)
Anti-Human RIghts
“Rex Tillerson, Trump’s first secretary of state, signaled to his employees at State that promoting human rights and democracy abroad could often create an “obstacle” to advancing U.S. interests.” (Posner)
“In Mack’s framing, therefore, Orbán was not an illiberal autocrat who abused human rights and destroyed democratic institutions, but rather a crusader for Western civilization whom the global left was unfairly demonizing.” (Posner)
Donald Trump and Authoritarianism
(Onishi 13:35) Trump’s “Actions and events have caused many to conclude that Trump is an aspirational authoritarian who will not hesitate to limit civil rights and violate the law in order to inflict his will on the American people.”
(Onishi 16:08) "To two groups that have lost their majority, but want to maintain control, democracy is not the ideal form of governance. Installing an authoritarian that will act on their behalf and against the will of the people is their best hope of retaining power.”
“Trump demolishes global alliances and the infrastructure of U.S. diplomacy, unraveling America’s commitment to promoting human rights, democracy, and civil society" (Posner)
Trump has encouraged "the idea of global cooperation in favor of a rising nationalism that threatens to overturn the liberal democratic order.” (Posner)
“Authoritarians can dismantle democratic institutions like a free media, an independent judiciary, and a robust civil society, and compromise election integrity, while still ostentatiously holding elections in which the people vote.” (Posner)
Cultural Purity
“Europe was committing 'cultural suicide' by admitting so many Muslim refugees, King told The New York Times, and he worried that President Obama was encouraging a similar decline in the United States.” (Posner)
"'Our duty is clear,' he [Geert Wilders] told the lawmakers. 'We have to stop mass immigration to the West from Islamic countries. And we have to get rid of the cultural relativism.'" (Posner)
Rohrabacher on Immigration (qtd. by Posner)
“Clearly, what we have seen over the past few months is unsustainable, and if not checked, will change the fundamental nature of European countries, which are now being inundated"