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  1. So, my #dentist is #catholic like most people in #mexico . Yes, she understands its a #religion brought to her ancestors by the point of a sword, but that doesn't seem to phase her faith in the slightest. Even more #hardcore, she goes to a specific church every so often to pray or give #patronage [or whatever chatolics do] to #Apollonia, the #patron #saint of dentists and toothaches. Why is she the patron saint of dentists and toothaches you ask? Because she had her teeth ripped out and / or shattered at the hands of an Alexandrian mob, that's why.
    I find this both endearing and disturbing at the same time, and I can think of little else as she rakes metal instruments across my teeth.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ap

  2. Capitalism’s defenders like to boast that it rewards talent. What capitalism actually rewards is saleability, compliance, stamina, inheritance, and the ability to endure long periods of spiritual self-betrayal without becoming visibly troublesome.

    philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/c

    #philosophy #capitalism #labour #art #employment #artists #culture #Kafka #modernity, #exploitation #creativity #patronage #work #society #politics #enlightenment #civilisation #potential #opportunitycosts #parasites #blog

  3. Sabah is rich in resources, but politicians jail its wealth, using patronage to ensure dependency and easy bribes. The "Sabahan Malas" stereotype and using religion to gaslight are tactics to hide this reality. Focus on corrupt leaders and demand a fair system.

    kalvin.my/the-grand-theft-of-s

    #Sabah #SocialJustice #AntiCorruption #Sabahan #SystemicOppression #Malaysia #Patronage #Narrative #Justice #SabahanMalas #ElitPower #EndExploitation #Activism #Zara #Change

  4. I have a new post over at @RacketNews about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the period of chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

    #Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

    theracketnews.com/p/to-the-vic

  5. I have a new post over at @RacketNews about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the period of chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

    #Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

    theracketnews.com/p/to-the-vic

  6. I have a new post over at @RacketNews about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the period of chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

    #Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

    theracketnews.com/p/to-the-vic

  7. I have a new post over at @RacketNews about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the period of chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

    #Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

    theracketnews.com/p/to-the-vic

  8. I have a new post over at @RacketNews about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the period of chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

    #Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

    theracketnews.com/p/to-the-vic

  9. "a stark new #reality: With #AI, #legacytech companies are sucking the innovation out of the room like a giant squid & more rapidly than w previous waves of #technology. And they're doing it right under the noses of #regulators. Requirements around computing power & talent hv made it too expensive for most companies to build cutting-edge #generativeAI models without e #patronage of a tech giant .. Bec #bigtech buys, rather than innovates, the strategy benefits #Microsoft"
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  10. SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

    The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

    SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
    because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
    they corrupt the sinews of America.”

    “They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

    We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
    true to his nature and calling,
    rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
    before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

    At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

    Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
    — it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

    SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
    — in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

    “The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
    a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

    “How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

    SACR may be his answer.

    In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

    Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
    “The Super Afrikaners,”
    a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
    a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

    “That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

    “That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

    South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

    The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

    Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

    The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

    But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

    #Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  11. SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

    The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

    SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
    because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
    they corrupt the sinews of America.”

    “They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

    We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
    true to his nature and calling,
    rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
    before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

    At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

    Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
    — it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

    SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
    — in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

    “The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
    a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

    “How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

    SACR may be his answer.

    In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

    Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
    “The Super Afrikaners,”
    a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
    a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

    “That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

    “That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

    South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

    The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

    Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

    The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

    But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

    #Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  12. SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

    The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

    SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
    because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
    they corrupt the sinews of America.”

    “They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

    We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
    true to his nature and calling,
    rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
    before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

    At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

    Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
    — it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

    SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
    — in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

    “The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
    a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

    “How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

    SACR may be his answer.

    In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

    Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
    “The Super Afrikaners,”
    a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
    a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

    “That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

    “That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

    South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

    The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

    Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

    The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

    But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

    #Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  13. SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

    The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

    SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
    because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
    they corrupt the sinews of America.”

    “They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

    We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
    true to his nature and calling,
    rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
    before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

    At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

    Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
    — it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

    SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
    — in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

    “The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
    a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

    “How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

    SACR may be his answer.

    In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

    Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
    “The Super Afrikaners,”
    a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
    a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

    “That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

    “That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

    South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

    The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

    Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

    The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

    But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

    #Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  14. SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.

    The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.

    SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
    because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
    they corrupt the sinews of America.”

    “They have alienated men from family, community, and God.

    We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
    true to his nature and calling,
    rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
    before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.

    At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.

    Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
    — it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.

    SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
    — in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.

    “The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
    a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.

    “How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”

    SACR may be his answer.

    In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.

    Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
    “The Super Afrikaners,”
    a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
    a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.

    “That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.

    “That’s the one,” Kressin replied.

    South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.

    The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.

    Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.

    The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.

    But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.

    #Statement #Marriage #Aaron #Renn #secrecy #confidentiality #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  15. Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

    Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

    “They would be next generation
    —not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

    “That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

    Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
    and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
    and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

    In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

    To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

    The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

    At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

    Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

    After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

    Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

    “So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
    And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

    “There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  16. Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

    Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

    “They would be next generation
    —not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

    “That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

    Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
    and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
    and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

    In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

    To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

    The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

    At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

    Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

    After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

    Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

    “So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
    And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

    “There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  17. Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

    Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

    “They would be next generation
    —not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

    “That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

    Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
    and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
    and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

    In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

    To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

    The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

    At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

    Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

    After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

    Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

    “So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
    And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

    “There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  18. Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

    Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

    “They would be next generation
    —not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

    “That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

    Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
    and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
    and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

    In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

    To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

    The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

    At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

    Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

    After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

    Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

    “So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
    And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

    “There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  19. Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.

    Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”

    “They would be next generation
    —not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.

    “That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”

    Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
    and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
    and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”

    In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”

    To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.

    The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.

    At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.

    Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.

    After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.

    Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”

    “So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
    And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.

    “There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  20. If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

    Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

    Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

    The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

    In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

    “We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  21. If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

    Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

    Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

    The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

    In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

    “We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  22. If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

    Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

    Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

    The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

    In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

    “We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  23. If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

    Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

    Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

    The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

    In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

    “We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  24. If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.

    Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”

    Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.

    The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.

    In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”

    “We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.

    #faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  25. A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

    🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

    🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

    🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

    🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

    🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

    Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
    #virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
    and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

    Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
    #influence,
    #capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
    #lawfare;
    #cybersecurity”),
    or #wealth.

    #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  26. A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

    🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

    🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

    🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

    🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

    🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

    Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
    #virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
    and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

    Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
    #influence,
    #capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
    #lawfare;
    #cybersecurity”),
    or #wealth.

    #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  27. A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

    🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

    🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

    🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

    🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

    🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

    Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
    #virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
    and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

    Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
    #influence,
    #capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
    #lawfare;
    #cybersecurity”),
    or #wealth.

    #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  28. A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

    🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

    🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

    🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

    🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

    🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

    Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
    #virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
    and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

    Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
    #influence,
    #capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
    #lawfare;
    #cybersecurity”),
    or #wealth.

    #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  29. A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.

    🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?

    🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?

    🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.

    🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.

    🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there

    Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
    #virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
    and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”

    Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
    #influence,
    #capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
    #lawfare;
    #cybersecurity”),
    or #wealth.

    #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  30. Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.

    The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
    Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.

    But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
    Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.

    Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”

    “Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.

    “Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
    — as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”

    #Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.

    The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.

    Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.

    #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  31. Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.

    The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
    Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.

    But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
    Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.

    Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”

    “Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.

    “Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
    — as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”

    #Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.

    The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.

    Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.

    #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law

  32. Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.

    The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
    Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.

    But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
    Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.

    Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”

    “Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.

    “Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
    — as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”

    #Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.

    The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.

    Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.

    #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law