Follow The Money, See Why Trump Is Putin's Useful Idiot

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3. Steve Bannon and others have admitted they are trying

to develop an international alliance of peoples in a crusade against liberalism and secularism.

In the U.S. anti-secular and anti-liberal themes such as Christian reconstructionism and Dominionism, "small government" and states rights have been infiltrating the political right and mainstream Christian sects for decades. And now Trump has thrown open the doors of power to them. This background movement is a significant part of why the surprising support on the right for very conservative Russia against their own government, which they believe they have to wrest from and cleanse of liberalism.

Of course, most trumpsters have no coherent ideology and couldn't articulate any of this if you put a gun to their heads. But anti-government plutocrats and anti-secular forces are currently joined, pulling in tandem against The Principles for Which We (supposedly) Stand. It is a real and gathering force, and right now most conservatives have become part of it, knowingly or willy-nilly in most cases.

And, btw, leaders are trying to involve conservative Muslims in their great battle for the soul of the planet.