My mom is a total right winger; she grew up Lutheran and converted to Orthodoxy around the time I was born. Not that the Lutherans tend to be so crazy, but she still makes for an interesting case in point in regard to your comment about the converts being the loony ones. (My dad actually converted with her, but he supports Bernie.)
On occasion, when she's gone off on something particularly ludicrous (like saying "evolution is just a theory", even though we both know she knows better), I've been tempted to hit back with, "well, that's a really Protestant thing to say!" .....but that just seems too harsh! 
By the way, I'm nothing now, but grew up ROCOR. My dad goes to an OCA church since he and my mom divorced, and since the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate are making nice, she's joined up with some clowns who are even more "Othodox" than anyone else, no idea what they're up to.
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