Never said Franco was a saint, but he did save Spain from a much worse fate, and I’ll certainly take him as a leader over most of the dreck leaders Spain has had since.
I hope that my original post made it clear that I agree with that assessment. Certainly for all his anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi rhetoric, Jews certainly lived unmolested in Spain during the Franco years--something that can't be said about the regime of the secular/futurist (though pragmatically "Catholic") regime of Mussolini.
American-style Fundamentalist Protestantism is a unique thing in chrstendom with no counterpart in chrstian history up to that point (with the possible exception of the original Jewish chrstians who shared with them the status of being stuck in a "no man's land" between "the two testaments." Philo-Semitism of the American Fundamentalist variety is distinguishing characteristic of the latter unknown to any form of European chrstianity (including European Protestantism). I'd say it ranks as a distinctive with teetotalism and the belief that the ingestion of "beverage alcohol" is inherently sinful.
Certainly European conservatives have been formed by, and seek to preserve, a tradition which is radically at odds with that of the Fundamentalist Protestantism known to Americans. They are two traditions that will never understand each other.