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Opinion | My former friend JD Vance has aligned with something far worse than MAGA

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Dean Obeidallah: Most Americans haven't heard of the post-liberal right, the small but influential group of conservative, mostly Catholic men.

They are disdainful of secularism and individual liberty, he says.

He says these men idolize the authoritarian Viktor Orbán , the prime minister of Hungary , and are nostalgic for Spain as it was run by the dictator Franco .

He said the group’s political priorities include restricting access to contraception and divorce and banning marriage equality and pornography.

But yet the Republican nominee for vice president is a prominent voice of this fringe movement.

Unlike the MAGA movement, post-liberalism is steeped in a revolutionary religiosity.

Its goals include replacing our social and political power structures with a new social order rooted in a misogynist understanding of gender, sexuality, marriage and reproduction.

This is reflected in Vance ’s obsession with birth rates and belittles women without children.

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