Allen also states that Opus Dei members (sociologically speaking and not institutionally speaking) acted towards Franco as all Spanish Catholics would. Sociologically at the beginning of Franco's regime, they hailed him as a savior who liberated them from the communism and anarchism of the Second Spanish Republic; this attitude evolve through time and in the end, like most Catholics, they were 50-50 for Franco. At present many Opus Dei members are politically conservative, but rather in the sense of Christian Democracy than in the sense of Clero-Fascism.