"Salvini is attempting to mould an aggressive Catholicism around a hyper-masculinised personality cult. The crucifix and the rosary become emblems of far-right Crusader-style military erotica, to be wielded by real men against the limp humanitarianism of Pope Francis who has spoken out on behalf of refugees and, most famously, in 2013  lamented ‘the globalisation of indifference’ at an open-air mass in  Lampedusa, held against the backdrop of the hulks of shipwrecked migrant boats."

Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology if Fascism comes to mind.

White supremacy, racial patriarchy: two sides of the same coin