That was informative, thank you! I am not Lebanese so don't know much about what Christian nationalism there means, but what you say tracks from what I read on his twitter. He will say things like "nothing anything against ethnostates, but..." when criticizing israel (which to his credit he has been doing very vociferously throughout the genocide in Gaza, even directly calling out others who said nothing).

wrt his activity on twitter, I think he still has this idea that social media allows truth to come forward more readily than hegemonic news media; probably most of us here on lemmy hold a similar belief, except further extended to specify "non-corporate-run" social media.

I see what you mean in that comparison to Peterson. I suppose his political appeal was a non-left anti-war perspective that wasn't just "it isn't worth the cost in OUR TROOPS' lives", which was pretty much impossible to find anywhere else. He definitely does love capitalism, some idealized version of it where entrenchment of oligarchy is impossible and people will spend their entire lives moving somewhat randomly up and (importantly) down social classes as their business fortunes wax & wane.