(1) Let's say that the term 'Hindu-Buddhist' started to become a more important concept because some regional scholars were talking about how Theraveda Buddhism & Hinduism actually share a lot of the same root and can be cooperative, and there was a general coalition between Hindu & Buddhist countries in the region (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka)to kind of counter Islam (Pakistan, Bangladesh)...
We could find scholars who had used the term "Hindu-Buddhist" in reference to perhaps some of the Kingdoms in Bengal and Orissa, or in reference to specific art forms or even language.
The very first use would probably be way-back-when.
Yet, the first time that people began talking about it as "Hindu-Buddhist" to denote some unity between Hindus & Theraveda Buddhists would be
far different than an art historian talking about the mushroom-esque temples of Orissa or a scholar specifically talking about Hindu-Buddhist intersections in Vaishnava & Pali texts... Right?
So somoene saying "Judeo-Christian" in terms of having a Judaic Christian liturgy in the 19th century isn't what we mean when Dennis PRager talks about Judeo-Christian, and the more specialized use of Judeo-Christian by Nietzsche in his own philosophy is also not being what is invokved by Prager, even if there is significant overlap...
(2) I am skeptical of accepting mainstream Republicans as part of some "brotherhodo of conservatives" with me.
I am skeptical of Libertarians. I am skeptical of Neocons. I am skeptical of hard classical liberal style American conservatives. I am skeptical of British conservatives that would be anywhere to the left of Nigel Farage.
... and as Bulaba pointed out, if we are talking about some conservative Sunnis and Salafists, I do not know what i would have in common with them.
My friend's parents, conservative Shi'ites from Iran, got along perfectly with me. We talked a lot about politics and religion, and their critique of the West is probaly very similar to a lot of my own... I would welcome some degree of brotherhood with them because I know they also believe in secularism to some level and also because we actually have similar "civilizational" takes...
But what partly enables this sort of brotherhood is that
we don't actually live in the same country. I will say this:
There are millions of Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia & India & the Middle East that I share an awful lot in common with and we have a profound brotherhood that is far beyond what I would have in common with bloody Mitt Romney.
(3) I look forward to the polls?
Have a good one.