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1. Anti-communist conservatives, including the Christian Right's moral traditionalists.
2. Racist right-wing groups, including the KKK, other segregationist groups, and the paramilitary white supremacist movement.
3. The Christian Right with its evangelical roots, and
4. Neoconservatives with roots during the Cold War under Republicans and Democrats.
Not entirely monolithic, these groups share common views with regard to the economy, the nation state in the global context (military and geopolitical), and moral norms relating to race and gender.
They also advocate free-market capitalism, anticommunism (now anything left of center), US global military hegemony, traditional morality, superiority of native-born white male Christian Americans, and the traditional nuclear family.
Moreover, they cloak their ideology in Christianity and patriotism to gain political power they claim God sanctions, giving moral legitimacy, even to steal from the poor, give to the rich, and wage war.
As a result, these ideologues are morally and politically indefensible, toxic and dangerous. They also embrace:
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