The conservative authoritarian threat

I seem to have missed this Washington Post article from July:

A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP

The particular church it highlights is a particularly nutty sounding one in Texas, but Catallaxy taught me it's not just Protestant evangelicals who are really keen on a revival of religious authoritarianism - the conservative Catholic movement has the hots (so to speak) for any East European country with a leader, no matter if he got there democratically or not, as long as he wants to put the gays in their place and does other culture warring to their liking.   (See Hungary, Russia, Poland.)  

Update:  on the latter point, see this post by conservative Catholic Catallaxy fixture dover-beach, in his new blog which is one of the contenders for a Catallaxy replacement:

There is now a coordinated attempt to stifle any resistance to the new hegemonic order emerging in the post-Cold War era both in Europe and the Anglosphere. Consider the effort being expended on the denigration of PM Orbán in Hungary merely for offering his people a reasonable alternative to liberal globalism that would not have battered an eyelid a generation ago. Do not underestimate the viciousness of this campaign; their will to power is terrible.