A recent interview with an African-American stated that "in some respects" Blacks in the southern US were "safer" than today. In essence he said that there were "rules" and if a Black person obeyed, conformed there was a security that seems absent today.  I guess some will call that "peace and stability".  The same might be said for the Iraq of Saddam, Libya of Gaddafi, and even the Russia of Putin. (Probably even more relevant might be the elected leader of WWII Germany).
Mr Trump of the Primaries and campaign seems eerily similar to that kind of "peace and order".  
It seems almost sacrilegious to compare our Church to Trump political "theory" but it is difficult to suppress the apparent similarity with mind-absent subserviance and vitriolic condemnation of quest and question.
The Church was successful in this kind of "governance" as long as it had the force of the state to approve of and engage cooperatively in "hell-torture-execution".