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  1. "The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office ruled Diego Rios’ death a homicide, according to its report released Thursday.

    "The ruling comes months after Diego Rios died in police custody after being stopped by Claremont Police Corporal Benjamin Alba and Officer Joshua Orona Nov. 28."

    tsl.news/diego-rios-death-rule

    #California #Claremont #ACAB

  2. On Friday, November 28, 30-year-old Diego Rios died following a "use-of-force incident" with Claremont police during a traffic stop. His family is organizing to demand answers and holding a vigil tonight at 6pm.

    A GoFundMe can be found here: gofundme.com/f/diego-rios-memo

    #California #Claremont

  3. Got a sneak preview of the #TabletopLibrary located in #Berkeley!

    It's on #Claremont, right next to two of my favorite book stores, #TheEscapist and #DarkCarnival !

    A ~15m drive from my apartment, which isn't great but also not terrible.

  4. Anton, a former managing director of investment at #BlackRock and currently a senior researcher at the #Claremont Institute. [..] With the support of Anton and others, #BAP was recognized as a kind of underworld Nietzschean influencer behind the #MAGA movement, attractive to young, regressive white males. He was to become virtually required reading for young white staffers in the first Trump administration.

    johnbellamyfoster.org/articles

  5. The tradition begins with legal theorist
    #Carl #Schmitt
    and can be followed in the work of the political philosopher #Leo #Strauss,
    thinkers affiliated with the #Claremont #Institute,
    a California-based think tank with close ties to the Trump movement,
    and the contemporary writings of the legal scholar #Adrian #Vermeule.

    Many on the right have bristled at presidential power’s being constrained over the past century by two waves of administrative reform.

    The first dates back to the early 20th century and the rise of the bureaucratic-regulatory state during the Progressive and New Deal eras.

    The second wave emerged in the 1970s, as Congress responded to the abuses of power by Richard Nixon.

    The presidency has evolved to become an office exercising general (and often passive) oversight of vast departments and agencies,
    which are staffed by career civil servants who stay on across administrations.

    Presidents are constrained by layers of lawyers and others determining what is allowable based on law and precedent.

    This evolution came about in part because the presidency can be the office most susceptible to despotic or tyrannical rule.

    That’s where the more radical critique emanating from the hard right focuses its attention.

    Schmitt (who died in 1985) developed his most influential ideas during the turbulence and ineffectual governance of Germany’s Weimar Republic.

    In his view, liberalism has a fatal weakness.

    Its aversion to violent conflict drives it to smother intense debate with ostensibly neutral procedures that conceal the truth about the nature of politics.
    nytimes.com/2025/05/04/opinion

  6. Anton and Yarvin’s May 2021 conversation was recorded for the podcast of the American Mind,
    a publication of the powerful rightwing #Claremont #Institute,
    where Anton is a senior fellow,
    and whose growing influence during the Trump era has seen it described as the “nerve center of the American right”.

    💥On 8 December, Trump’s transition team announced that Anton would be appointed director of policy planning at the state department.

    Anton also served in a communications role in Trump’s first-term national security council from February 2017 until April 2018,
    resigning the day before neoconservative John Bolton assumed the role of national security adviser.

    After leaving the first Trump administration, Anton did not abandon Trump,
    but continued writing about US liberal democracy in bleak terms.

    In "Up from Conservatism",
    a 2023 anthology of essays edited by the executive director of Claremont’s "Center for the American Way of Life", Arthur Milikh,
    Anton wrote that
    “the United States peaked around 1965”,
    and that Americans are ruled by
    “a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion,
    and media figures who police those boundaries”.

    Anton continued the discussion in sections headed
    “The universities have become evil”,
    “Our economy is fake”,
    “The people are corrupt”,
    “Our civilization has lost the will to live”.

    His and Yarvin’s conversation was ostensibly about his 2020 book,
    "The Stakes".

    That book was controversial even on the right for its prolonged consideration of autocratic “Caesarism”
    as a means of resolving American decadence.

    In the book, he defined #Caesarism as a “form of one-man rule:
    halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.

    He adds, though, that
    “Caesarism is not tyranny, which, strictly understood,
    is a regime that usurps a legitimate and functioning government”,
    whereas Caesarism implements “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity”

    – that is,
    “the breakdown of republican, constitutional rule”,
    adding that
    “a nation no longer capable of ruling itself must yet be ruled”.

    He writes that a
    💥“Red Caesar” could be attractive to
    “the reds” in the Republican coalition,
    who he says are
    “under constant rhetorical, political, and, increasingly, physical attack,
    especially in blue states”,
    -- making them “more likely to turn to a Caesar”.

    Anton stops short of openly calling for authoritarian rule,
    but in general, he writes that the advantages of Caesarism include
    “continuity and stability”
    and “the prospect of avoiding conflict”,
    and that it “tends to engender calm”.

    #CurtisYarvin #MichaelAnton
    #RedCaesar

  7. "Pomona is setting an incredibly dangerous precedent surrounding freedom of speech on campus. The college’s willingness to suspend and ban students expressing solidarity with Palestine, without presenting any evidence or allowing due process, is perilous to the future of free speech and freedom of protest at these colleges. Pomona’s ban on The Outback’s co-Editor-in-Chief, threat of sanctions against Claremont Undercurrents, and intimidation of a The Scripps Voice reporter are active attempts by Pomona administration to quell student voices and ultimately suppress pro-Palestinian student activism on campus."

    tsl.news/you-cant-silence-us-a

    @palestine #Palestine #media #press #PomonaCollege #Claremont #USpol #academia #education

  8. From a hostile source, but a look at what went down today at the Claremont Colleges:

    "Streams of protesters from different campuses convened at the intersection of 6th Street and N. College Ave., forming a group of several hundred.

    "Students then marched south to Carnegie Hall, flooding in through the front entrance. Two administrators briefly attempted to block the doors and ID scanner, but were overwhelmed by the mass of protesters.

    "Inside, students chanted while organizers handed out pamphlets. Lead organizers commandeered multiple classrooms to lead 'teach-in' sessions for participants.

    "Photos from inside the building show graffiti reading 'INTIFADA,' the Arabic word for 'uprising' or 'rebellion,' spray painted on walls, inside the elevators, and over the carpeting. Protesters also cut electrical cords inside classrooms, sliced a projector screen, and spray-painted over a bust of William Johnson, a former Pomona trustee."

    claremontindependent.com/post/

    @palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #PomonaCollege #Claremont #education #academia

  9. This semester, the progressive, student-run Motley Coffeehouse at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, hung a Palestinian flag in the space. The administration ordered it removed, saying it made the cafe unwelcoming for some. The coffeehouse refused.

    This morning, as the cafe was preparing to host a "Market for Mutual Aid" to raise funds for folks in the Congo, Palestine, and Sudan, Scripps shut down the coffeehouse, and in the twisted logic of power, deployed feminist language in doing so, claiming closing the space will preserve "the feminist and intersectional ethos that has shaped the Motley’s culture." As much as Scripps wishes it to be the case, this is certainly not the end of the story.

    tsl.news/scripps-administratio

    #Palestine #Scripps #Claremont #California

  10. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  11. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  12. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  13. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  14. Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
    and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

    After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
    “do the Wendell Berry thing”
    in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.

    Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
    and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”

    The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.

    He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.

    Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.

    Women would not be allowed to vote
    —instead, men would vote for their households.

    When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.

    “I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
    but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
    suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”

    The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
    so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.

    We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
    “I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
    or Judeo-Christian worldview,
    or Judeo-Christian whatever,
    and really eradicate that from our thinking.

    Because if we say that America is a
    Judeo-Christian country,
    then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”

    What role, I asked him, would Jews play?

    After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”

    We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
    and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
    "America as a people".

    The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”

    America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
    but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”

    Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
    —as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.

    In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
    but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.

    Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.

    “I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
    and to seek to restore that,” he said.

    “This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"

    In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
    Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
    “an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”

    WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,

    and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.

    As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”

    Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”

    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

    #Heritage #Action #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  15. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  16. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  17. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  18. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  19. William Wolfe served in the Trump administration
    both as the deputy assistant secretary of defense
    and as director of House affairs at the Department of State.

    He is also an alumnus of #Heritage #Action,
    a sister organization of the Heritage Foundation,
    the arch-conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
    whose chief architect, Russell Vought, posted on X that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.”

    A few months later, the Bucks County Beacon uncovered a lengthy online manifesto on the goals of Christian nationalists.

    The document, which listed Wolfe and Joel Webbon as contributing editors
    and Oklahoma Sen. #Dusty #Deevers as a co-author,
    called for “civil magistrates” to usher in 💥“the establishment of the Ten Commandments as the foundational law of the nation.”

    The manifesto doesn’t specify exactly how Christian nationalists should achieve these goals.

    As Tabachnick, the extremism researcher, interprets it, the TheoBros are imagining a utopia where “they are going to be free to be entrepreneurs in all different senses,
    including the tech world that they’re mixing with so freely.”

    The key, she said, is that authoritarianism “is required to have the utopian vision.”

    Last year, the extremism watchdog group Right Wing Watch posted a video of Wolfe quoting a scripture passage.
    There are times when “even the God of peace proclaims by his providence, ‘to arms!’” he says.

    “If we have ever lived in a point of time in American history since then that we could argue that now is a time ‘to arms’ again, I think we are getting close.”

    William Wolfe’s Christian nationalism manifesto made the rounds on social media,
    but in mainstream conservative outlets,
    it was #Stephen #Wolfe
    (no relation to William)
    who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world.

    In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and the American Conservative,
    Wolfe paints America as a “#gynocracy” whose government and culture have been feminized by unhappy women leaders.
    (Sound familiar?)

    He has stated on X that women should not have the right to vote, and that “interethnic” marriage can be “sinful.”

    #Andrew #Isker #Andrew #Torba #Gab #refugees #Paul #Gottfried #Richard #Spencer #William #Wolfe #Big #Eva #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  20. One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
    —the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
    studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
    and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
    the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.

    In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.

    Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
    not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.

    “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

    That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
    “war on white America”
    alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
    the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.

    The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
    a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Like many TheoBros,
    Isker sees much to like in Vance.

    In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
    “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”

    In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
    “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
    Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
    She wants them destroyed.
    She wants you to never be able to have this.
    She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

    One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.

    Enter #William #Wolfe,
    the founder of the
    "Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
    the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
    has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.

    Baptists are only the beginning.

    Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
    which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”

    In August, he posted on X,
    “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
    than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

    #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  21. One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
    —the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
    studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
    and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
    the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.

    In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.

    Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
    not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.

    “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

    That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
    “war on white America”
    alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
    the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.

    The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
    a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Like many TheoBros,
    Isker sees much to like in Vance.

    In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
    “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”

    In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
    “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
    Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
    She wants them destroyed.
    She wants you to never be able to have this.
    She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

    One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.

    Enter #William #Wolfe,
    the founder of the
    "Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
    the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
    has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.

    Baptists are only the beginning.

    Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
    which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”

    In August, he posted on X,
    “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
    than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

    #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  22. One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
    —the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
    studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
    and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
    the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.

    In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.

    Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
    not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.

    “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

    That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
    “war on white America”
    alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
    the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.

    The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
    a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Like many TheoBros,
    Isker sees much to like in Vance.

    In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
    “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”

    In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
    “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
    Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
    She wants them destroyed.
    She wants you to never be able to have this.
    She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

    One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.

    Enter #William #Wolfe,
    the founder of the
    "Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
    the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
    has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.

    Baptists are only the beginning.

    Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
    which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”

    In August, he posted on X,
    “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
    than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

    #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  23. One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
    —the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
    studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
    and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
    the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.

    In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.

    Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
    not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.

    “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

    That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
    “war on white America”
    alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
    the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.

    The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
    a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Like many TheoBros,
    Isker sees much to like in Vance.

    In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
    “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”

    In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
    “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
    Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
    She wants them destroyed.
    She wants you to never be able to have this.
    She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

    One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.

    Enter #William #Wolfe,
    the founder of the
    "Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
    the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
    has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.

    Baptists are only the beginning.

    Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
    which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”

    In August, he posted on X,
    “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
    than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

    #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  24. One eager customer is 38-year-old TheoBro #Andrew #Isker
    —the pastor who interned at Wilson’s church,
    studied divinity at New Saint Andrews,
    and co-wrote a book on Christian nationalism with #Andrew #Torba,
    the openly antisemitic CEO of the social media platform #Gab.

    In July, Isker announced on X that he planned to move his family of seven to lead a church in a New Founding community in Tennessee.

    Life in his native Minnesota, he said, had become untenable because of permissive laws around trans rights and abortion,
    not to mention how hospitable the state has been to #refugees.

    “Minnesota is one of the top destinations for resettling foreign people hostile to our way of life,” he said.

    That month, Isker spoke at a Texas conference about the
    “war on white America”
    alongside #Paul #Gottfried,
    the mentor of prominent white nationalist #Richard #Spencer.

    The conference was hosted by the "True Texas Project",
    a far-right group with ties to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

    Like many TheoBros,
    Isker sees much to like in Vance.

    In early July, before Trump announced his running mate, Isker referred to him as
    “Senator JD Vance (R-Heritage America).”

    In late July, he posted a video of Vance and told his 29,000 followers,
    “You need to double down on childless cat lady discourse.
    Kamala sees happy, large families and hates them.
    She wants them destroyed.
    She wants you to never be able to have this.
    She is a nasty, bitter harridan who hates all that is true, good, and beautiful.”

    One problem is that there simply are not enough TheoBros to populate Christian communities like the one Isker plans to move to.

    Enter #William #Wolfe,
    the founder of the
    "Center for Baptist Leadership", which aims to persuade members of the Southern Baptist Convention that it,
    the largest of all Protestant denominations in the United States,
    has fallen prey to the corrupting forces of liberalism.

    Baptists are only the beginning.

    Wolfe wants to win over the entire evangelical mainstream,
    which he and other TheoBros refer to as “#Big #Eva.”

    In August, he posted on X,
    “Once you realize that Big Eva thinks it’s a bigger sin to desire to preserve the customs, heritage, values, and cultural homogeneity of your own nation
    than to kill the unborn in the womb, you can better understand their moral framework.”

    #Josh #Abbotoy #Claremont #Institute #Project2025 #Heritage #Foundation #Chris #Buskirk #Rockbridge #Network #Leonard #Leo #Peter #Thiel #Vance #Josh #Clemans #Charles #Haywood #warlord #Nate #Fischer #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  25. An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
    #Josh #Abbotoy,
    executive director of "American Reformer"
    and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".

    A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
    hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.

    Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.

    In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
    a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.

    Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
    None other than
    JD #Vance.

    Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.

    Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.

    In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
    Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
    #Josh #Clemans:
    a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.

    The caption read “Our guy.”

    New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
    a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,

    who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”

    According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
    and that its members
    “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”

    But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.

    Promotional materials describe a community of
    “unmatched seclusion”
    where
    “simple country faith”
    protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.

    Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.

    “Who’s going to grab the land?
    Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
    something authentic to the region’s history,
    or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

    #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  26. An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
    #Josh #Abbotoy,
    executive director of "American Reformer"
    and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".

    A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
    hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.

    Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.

    In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
    a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.

    Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
    None other than
    JD #Vance.

    Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.

    Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.

    In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
    Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
    #Josh #Clemans:
    a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.

    The caption read “Our guy.”

    New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
    a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,

    who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”

    According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
    and that its members
    “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”

    But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.

    Promotional materials describe a community of
    “unmatched seclusion”
    where
    “simple country faith”
    protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.

    Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.

    “Who’s going to grab the land?
    Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
    something authentic to the region’s history,
    or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

    #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  27. An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
    #Josh #Abbotoy,
    executive director of "American Reformer"
    and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".

    A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
    hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.

    Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.

    In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
    a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.

    Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
    None other than
    JD #Vance.

    Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.

    Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.

    In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
    Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
    #Josh #Clemans:
    a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.

    The caption read “Our guy.”

    New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
    a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,

    who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”

    According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
    and that its members
    “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”

    But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.

    Promotional materials describe a community of
    “unmatched seclusion”
    where
    “simple country faith”
    protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.

    Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.

    “Who’s going to grab the land?
    Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
    something authentic to the region’s history,
    or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

    #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  28. An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
    #Josh #Abbotoy,
    executive director of "American Reformer"
    and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".

    A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
    hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.

    Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.

    In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
    a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.

    Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
    None other than
    JD #Vance.

    Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.

    Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.

    In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
    Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
    #Josh #Clemans:
    a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.

    The caption read “Our guy.”

    New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
    a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,

    who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”

    According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
    and that its members
    “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”

    But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.

    Promotional materials describe a community of
    “unmatched seclusion”
    where
    “simple country faith”
    protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.

    Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.

    “Who’s going to grab the land?
    Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
    something authentic to the region’s history,
    or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

    #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  29. An even more well-connected Wilson emulator is
    #Josh #Abbotoy,
    executive director of "American Reformer"
    and managing partner of a venture capital fund and real estate firm called "New Founding".

    A former fellow of the right-wing think tank the #Claremont #Institute, Abbotoy reported that he recently participated in a #Project2025 presidential transition “strategic planning session”
    hosted by the right-wing think tank the #Heritage #Foundation.

    Bucks County Beacon reporter Jennifer Cohn revealed venture capitalist #Chris #Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher.

    In 2022, Buskirk co-founded the #Rockbridge #Network,
    a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker #Leonard #Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire #Peter #Thiel.

    Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network?
    None other than
    JD #Vance.

    Thiel, Vance’s mentor and former employer, is also a major funder of the National Conservatism movement.

    Obsessed with global birthrates, Thiel spent $10 million on his protégé’s successful 2022 Senate campaign.

    In July, shortly after Trump had announced Vance as his running mate,
    Cohn surfaced a tweet by New Founding’s network director,
    #Josh #Clemans:
    a photo of Vance with several New Founding staffers.

    The caption read “Our guy.”

    New Founding lists as a partner the "Society for American Civic Renewal",
    a secretive fraternal order founded by Indiana shampoo baron #Charles #Haywood,

    who describes himself as an aspiring Christian “#warlord.”

    According to founder #Nate #Fischer, New Founding wants to “form the backbone of a renewed American regime”
    and that its members
    “understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise.”

    But its main public-facing project appears to be turning tracts of land in Appalachia into Christian communities.

    Promotional materials describe a community of
    “unmatched seclusion”
    where
    “simple country faith”
    protects local culture from rainbow flags and crime.

    Potential buyers, he advises, should not delay.

    “Who’s going to grab the land?
    Is it going to be good, based people who want to build something inspiring,
    something authentic to the region’s history,
    or is it going to be Bill Gates and BlackRock and hippies from California?”

    #Brian #Sauvé #Mefferd #Joel #Webbon #dominant #man #submissive #woman #Hawley #Johnson #Lee #Vance #Trump #Turning #Point #USA #Tucker #Carlson #flamethrower #Douglas #Wilson #Calvinism #Vance #hypermasculinity #birthrates #ethnonationalism #misogyny #TheoBros #Calvin #Rushdoony #homeschooling #charismatic #New #Apostolic #Reformation #reformed #TheoBros #apostles #prophets #Bible #postmillennialism #Aaron #Renn #Andrew #Isker #Douglas #Wilson #shared #history #patriarchal #Christian #nationalism #young #pastors #Christian #prince #women #flogging #Franco #multiculturalism #Taylor #Swift

  30. J.D.Vance himself has admitted he is “plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures” and one of his faves is the obscure #ClaremontInstitute .

    Spawned in Southern California out of the teachings of an academia entrenched #BarryGoldwater speech writer named #HenryJaffa , since his death, it has found new life embracing 21st century figures like #CharlieKirk , #RonDeSantis , #JohnEastman and actively seeks out extremist #RWNJ sheriffs for intensive "fellowships".

    What #Politico terms "the intellectual nerve center of the Trumpist right " it's #thinktank was one of seven main influences recently highlighted as shaping recent #Catholic convert #JDVance and his #weird worldviews. Vance has eagerly embraced a host of #FarRight milieu members including members of secret societies, maverick publishers, and acolytes of advocates to "prioritize re-Christianizing America".

    #Claremont Institute has rebranded itself from its right wing roots in #academia to a more fearsome forefront of racially divisive anti-Democratic alt right think tanks and what one prominent former #GOP campaign manager called the "West Point of American fascism".

    Nowadays Claremont seeks out #socialmedia savvy and influential leaders, such as Vance, DeSantis & Josh Hawley who are white and wryly and openly contemptuous of the left, most minorities and even #democracy itself. Eagerly embracing divisions and propelling #MAGA Xtian supremacist ideologies, the place that brought you #Pizzagate is far from honest #AbeLincoln or other flag bearers of Claremont's #conservatism hailed at the orgs founding.

    Nowadays, largely estranged from the CA based institution it was founded at, the founder of the Claremont Institute's archives are actually held at Michigan's rural #HillsdaleCollege—a private, #conservative #ChristianAcademy headed by one of the institute’s 70's era original members.

    politico.com/news/magazine/202

    12ft.io/https://newrepublic.co

  31. J.D.Vance himself has admitted he is “plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures” and one of his faves is the obscure #ClaremontInstitute .

    Spawned in Southern California out of the teachings of an academia entrenched #BarryGoldwater speech writer named #HenryJaffa , since his death, it has found new life embracing 21st century figures like #CharlieKirk , #RonDeSantis , #JohnEastman and actively seeks out extremist #RWNJ sheriffs for intensive "fellowships".

    What #Politico terms "the intellectual nerve center of the Trumpist right " it's #thinktank was one of seven main influences recently highlighted as shaping recent #Catholic convert #JDVance and his #weird worldviews. Vance has eagerly embraced a host of #FarRight milieu members including members of secret societies, maverick publishers, and acolytes of advocates to "prioritize re-Christianizing America".

    #Claremont Institute has rebranded itself from its right wing roots in #academia to a more fearsome forefront of racially divisive anti-Democratic alt right think tanks and what one prominent former #GOP campaign manager called the "West Point of American fascism".

    Nowadays Claremont seeks out #socialmedia savvy and influential leaders, such as Vance, DeSantis & Josh Hawley who are white and wryly and openly contemptuous of the left, most minorities and even #democracy itself. Eagerly embracing divisions and propelling #MAGA Xtian supremacist ideologies, the place that brought you #Pizzagate is far from honest #AbeLincoln or other flag bearers of Claremont's #conservatism hailed at the orgs founding.

    Nowadays, largely estranged from the CA based institution it was founded at, the founder of the Claremont Institute's archives are actually held at Michigan's rural #HillsdaleCollege—a private, #conservative #ChristianAcademy headed by one of the institute’s 70's era original members.

    politico.com/news/magazine/202

    12ft.io/https://newrepublic.co

  32. J.D.Vance himself has admitted he is “plugged into a lot of weird, right-wing subcultures” and one of his faves is the obscure #ClaremontInstitute .

    Spawned in Southern California out of the teachings of an academia entrenched #BarryGoldwater speech writer named #HenryJaffa , since his death, it has found new life embracing 21st century figures like #CharlieKirk , #RonDeSantis , #JohnEastman and actively seeks out extremist #RWNJ sheriffs for intensive "fellowships".

    What #Politico terms "the intellectual nerve center of the Trumpist right " it's #thinktank was one of seven main influences recently highlighted as shaping recent #Catholic convert #JDVance and his #weird worldviews. Vance has eagerly embraced a host of #FarRight milieu members including members of secret societies, maverick publishers, and acolytes of advocates to "prioritize re-Christianizing America".

    #Claremont Institute has rebranded itself from its right wing roots in #academia to a more fearsome forefront of racially divisive anti-Democratic alt right think tanks and what one prominent former #GOP campaign manager called the "West Point of American fascism".

    Nowadays Claremont seeks out #socialmedia savvy and influential leaders, such as Vance, DeSantis & Josh Hawley who are white and wryly and openly contemptuous of the left most minorities and even democracy itself. Eagerly embracing divisions and propelling a MAGA Xtian supremacist ideologies that brought you Pizzagate is far from that of Lincoln or other flag bearers of Claremont's conservatism hailed at the orgs founding.

    Nowadays largely estranged from the CA based institution it was founded at, the founder of the Claremont Institute's archives are actually at Michigan's rural #HillsdaleCollege—a private, #conservative #ChristianAcademy headed by one of the institute’s 70's era founders.

    politico.com/news/magazine/202

    12ft.io/https://newrepublic.co

  33. Top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links

    A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “#clandestine #actions” and has links to a network of extremist groups and think tanks, the Guardian can reveal.

    #Parker #Magid was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary
    His employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics.
    Vance’s staffer links him to 🔸Beck & Stone🔸 (B&S) and its subsidiary political consultancy 🔸Knight Takes Rook🔸 ( #KTR ).
    The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right #Claremont #Institute,
    the serial Arizona political candidate #Blake #Masters and the
    #counter-#revolutionary” magazine IM–1776.

    B&S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, #Andrew #Beck and #Austin #Stone. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City.

    Beck, also 🔸a Claremont co-founder🔸, is closely involved with the ♦️Society for American Civic Renewal♦️ ( #SACR ), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian.
    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  34. A New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across America

    Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.

    The #Claremont #Institute has been located in Southern California since its founding in the late 1970s.

    From its perch in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, it has become a leading intellectual center of the pro-Trump right.

    Without fanfare, however, some of Claremont’s key figures have been leaving California to find ideologically friendlier climes.

    Ryan P. #Williams, the think tank’s president, moved to a suburb in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in early April.

    His friend and Claremont colleague Michael #Anton
    — a California native who played a major role in 2016 to convince conservative intellectuals to vote for Mr. Trump
    — moved to the Dallas area two years ago.

    The institute’s vice president for operations and administration has moved there, too.

    Others are following. Mr. Williams opened a small office in another Dallas-Fort Worth suburb in May,
    and said he expects to shrink Claremont’s California headquarters.

    “A lot of us share a sense that Christendom is unraveling,” said Skyler #Kressin, 38, who is friendly with the Claremont leaders and shares many of their concerns.

    He left Southern California to move to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, in 2020. “We need to be engaged, we need to be building.”
    nytimes.com/2024/07/04/us/clar

  35. Pomona College sent the following email out today.

    What's surprising is not that it is dishonest, manipulative, fatuous, racist, Zionist, or manages to avoid mention of seven months of genocide. What's surprising is that this is the best that a school that claims itself as one of the elite institutions of higher learning in the country can come up with. I'm embarrassed for them.

    @palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #PomonaCollege #Claremont

  36. Claremont FJP Statement on Student Encampment at Pomona

    As the Israeli military invades Rafah and continues its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Claremont students have set up an encampment on Pomona’s Marston Quad and are demanding that Pomona College cease its support of that genocide. Pomona College’s faculty and students have each voted overwhelmingly for divestment – the Pomona College board and President Gabi Starr must now commit to following through on the ethical, anti-genocide actions the Pomona community has called for. The students' principled protests are a response to the Pomona administration's failure to honor these student and faculty calls for disclosure and for a commitment to and process of divestment. Any disruption to campus activity is a result of the Pomona administration’s refusal to heed these calls from students and faculty.

    The Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine reiterates our stance in support of both student activism and Palestinian liberation.

    We reiterate our support for students’ actions of civil disobedience in protest of genocide and apartheid, including encampments, across the globe and especially in Claremont.

    We reiterate our demand that campus administrations honor their commitments to freedom of political expression and keep their students, faculty, and staff safe from arrest and assault by militarized police.

    We condemn any campus administration that chooses to bring in law enforcement rather than heed the campus community’s call to refuse complicity in genocide.

    We reiterate our call for divestment, a call applicable to every one of the Claremont Colleges, but one that begins with Pomona because it holds the largest endowment among the Claremont Colleges.

    We reiterate our call for a boycott of institutions complicit in the denial of Palestinian rights, beginning with Pitzer College Council’s vote to endorse an academic boycott of those institutions.

    We stand in solidarity with students as they put themselves on the line for Palestinian liberation.

    We stand in solidarity with Palestine.

    *Claremont Faculty for Justice in Palestine includes over 80 faculty and staff members in the Consortium. For more information, email [email protected].

    @palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia #PomonaCollege #Claremont

  37. Students at the seven colleges and universities in Claremont, CA, are organizing an alternative, liberatory graduation ceremony that refuses complicity with genocide-enabling institutions.

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  38. This evening in Claremont, CA:

    RALLY TONIGHT. 6:10PM MONDAY MAY 6TH. PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT MARSTON QUAD. Join us in calling for Pomona College to divest from genocide in Palestine NOW. Open to students, faculty, workers and ALL community members.

    Come to Marston Quad (Along N College Ave & Amherst Ave): bring a mask, keffiyeh and your comrades! There will be dabke while we listen to Palestinian music. Tonight our intention is to celebrate resistance and martyrdom. In light of the current bombardment of Rafah, we focus on the symbolism of dabke as a representation of life against repression is precisely what today calls for.

    Accessibility considerations: mask-required event, to protect each other from COVID-19 please do not attend if you are sick or exposed, standing or sitting on ground approximately 1-2 hours, water/snacks will be available and a care team will be available to meet accessibility needs.

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