>>19912377>Absolute monarchies suffocated the church putting the state above the pope in so many casesFascist doctrine is literally that.
Yes, Absolute Monarchies care for the political ideals, because it includes everyone (as well as Churchmen, who are also members of the political community).
You're just upset they cared about advancing their kingdom and not some crusader larp in the middle east.
Louis XIV also did more for Catholicism: supporting James II in England and exiling Protestants.
Ultramontanists don't realize how good they had it.
Royal Monarchy doesn't want the Pope to undermine their pre-eminence no more than the Pope wants them to deny his hold on the keys (the Papacy's stake to pre-eminence).
>feudal monarchies with local fueros/cortes like Spain and Portugal were the exactly same thing!Yes, it is the very same constitutionalist strain in the cries for decentralization and localism and pluralism (that brand of constitutionalism -- dating back to Aristotle).
Same thing.
>>19912383Fascists are closer to us in ideology, but they're bigger statists and unapologetically totalitarian.
Calling you out on your bullshit where you growl at absolutism but praise fascism.
Face it, you're supporting fascism because it's more popular to do so.
