"The Cult of Tradition" This is couched in the prevailing belief that things were better "back in the day," ignoring hardships of the past and focusing instead on rose-colored nostalgia. When you're specifically looking at the culturally syncretistic aspect of this point, you're merging aspects of religion or socially conservative movements into that rose-colored view of the past. We uphold folks like John Wayne as idealistic 'men,' when we're ignoring the fact that he was an actor and most of his mythos comes from fictitious characters. This is an appeal to history, asking voters to support things like making a country great again. "The Rejection of modernism " This goes hand-in-hand with "The Cult Of Tradition." If things were truly better "back in the day," that must mean that modernity is worse off. This is at the root of things like anti-DEI measures, because that's "modern," and as we al...