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02/09/2026

Kyle Mantyla

Far-right pastor Patrick Wooden says that whoever was responsible for posting a racist image of the Obamas on President Donald Trump's social media page should be fired.

Andrew Isker declares that "the Central Park 5 were guilty as sin" and that "only race-obsessed lefties care more about their race than whether sadistic, violent criminals are punished." The Central Park 5 were all exonerated.

Jenna Ellis complains about the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" before the Super Bowl: "It's trying to bring an element of Marxism and a false world view into a sporting event."

Joel Webbon believes that "white boomers" can be brought into the white nationalism movement if it is sold to them as simply opposing racism and discrimination.

Joshua Haymes is confident that "Pizzagate is real."

Finally, we recognize that Mike Lindell's gubernatorial campaign already has a ton of baggage, but his ties to white nationalist conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke should not be overlooked.

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C. Jay Engel is a far-right white nationalist commentator and podcast host who is part of a movement to create a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee.Virulently anti-immigrant, Engel has cheered on the administration's brutal deportation campaign, called for the "repeal of the Twentieth Century," and advocated for Taylor Swift to be "arrested and executed."

When President Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, Engel celebrated that "our guys" were now in control and bragged that "there are very good right-wing Heritage Americans in staff positions all over Washington." The term "Heritage American," when used by Engel and his ilk, is essentially a euphemism for a form of anti-immigrant white nationalism that insists only those whose ancestors have been in this country for several generations truly qualify as Americans.

Last week, Engel appeared on "The J. Burden Show," where he revealed that "our guys" are placed in influential positions surrounding Vice President J.D. Vance.

"You have to confront power with power," Engel said. "I think J.D. Vance and others in his circles have also gone through that transformation. Maybe they're not quite as radicalized as us, but I do know for a fact that they have staffers and people in their ear that are our guys. They operate within our circles, they talk to us, they're in our group chats."

Engel said that traditional neocon establishment Republicans are afraid of Vance because they realize that their influence is fading while Vance's far-right white Christian nationalist ideology represents the future of the conservative movement.

"Vance and some of the people that he operates with, including friends of mine, they actually are ideologically set on destroying the residues of neoconservative thinking in Washington," Engel claimed. "So they're concerned that a Vance rise represents the complete liquidation of everything that they've contributed to the American political system since the 1990s. And I think that's true. I think that Vance does represent that, because Vance has connections to people on the right wing that are much more resolute in their right-wingness compared to the people in Trump's circles. Trump is opening a lot of doors, but the people that Vance has on staff, including Tucker Carlson's son, they're a lot more radicalized than Trump staffers, except for maybe Stephen Miller or something. So I think that Vance does represent a very healthy trend."

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In rural Appalachian areas of Tennessee and Kentucky, Josh Abbotoy operates a real estate company called Ridgerunner. And he uses socially conservative rhetoric to promote his company, declaring, "Faith, family and freedom — those are the values that we try to celebrate."

According to BBC reporters Ellie House and Mike Wendling, some of Abbotoy's clients are far-right Christian nationalists who openly push extreme ideas like repealing the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment — which gave women the right vote — and overturning civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

"Initially, he didn't attract much local attention after setting up shop in Jackson County, (Tennessee)," House and Wendling explain in a late December article. "But in late 2024, a local TV news report broadcast controversial statements made by two of Mr. Abbotoy's first, and most outspoken, customers: Andrew Isker, a pastor and author originally from Minnesota, and C. Jay Engel, a businessman from California. They are self-described 'Christian nationalists' who question modern values, such as whether female suffrage and the civil rights movement were good ideas, and call for mass deportations of legal immigrants far in excess of President Donald Trump's current plan. Another thing they sometimes say: 'Repeal the 20th Century.'"

The BBC reporters note that although "Abbotoy himself does not identify as a Christian nationalist," his tenants' extreme views are worrying their neighbors."

House and Wendling quote Jackson County resident Nan Coons as saying, "You don't know who these people are, or what they're capable of. And so, it's scary."

Engel has even called for deportations of legal non-white immigrants, writing, "Peoples like Indians, or South East Asians or Ecuadorians or immigrated Africans are the least capable of fitting in and should be sent home immediately."

Gainesboro, Tennessee resident Diana Mandli, however, is calling Isker's church out.

Mandli told the BBC, "I believe that they have been attempting to brand our town and our county as a headquarters for their ideology of Christian nationalism."

*Read the full BBC article at this link.

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EXTREMISM MOJO

To Understand JD Vance, You Need to Meet the “TheoBros”

These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again.

Kiera Butler November+December 2024 Issue

*Our November+December issue investigates the Christian nationalist movement that aspires to take over government at all levels, from school boards and state legislatures to Congress and the Supreme Court. Read the series of stories here.

On July 15, when former President Donald Trump first appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, he brought along two new accessories. One was a large bandage covering his ear, which had been nicked by a would-be assassin’s bullet. The other was Ohio’s first-term senator and Hillbilly Elegy author JD Vance, who was about to debut as the GOP vice presidential hopeful.

Two days later, after paying tribute to his wife, Usha—the child of immigrants from India—and their three biracial kids, Vance portrayed a vision of America that resonated deeply with Trump voters. “America is not just an idea,” he said solemnly. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is, in short, a nation.”

To many viewers at home, this seemed like the stuff of a boilerplate, patriotic stump speech. But the words “shared history” lit up a far-right evangelical corner of social media. “America is a particular place with a particular people,” Joel Webbon, a Texas pastor and podcaster, wrote on X. “This is one of the most important political questions facing America right now,” posted former Trump administration official William Wolfe. “Answer it wrong, we will go the way of Europe, where the native-born populations are being utterly displaced by third world migrants and Muslims. Answer it right, and we can renew America once more.”

Vance was embracing one of their most cherished beliefs: America should belong to Christians, and, more specifically, white ones. “The American nation is an actual historical people,” says Stephen Wolfe (no relation to William), the author of the 2022 book The Case for Christian Nationalism, “not just a hodgepodge of various ethnicities, but actually a place of settlement and rootedness.” For this group of evangelical leaders, Vance, a 40-year-old former Marine who waxes rapturous about masculinity and women’s revered role as mothers, was the perfect tribune to spread their gospel of patriarchal Christian nationalism.

For years, graying, khaki-clad evangelists have faithfully made the rounds at conservative events. However, as Wolfe, a 41-year-old former Princeton postdoc, writes in his book, these “men in wrinkled, short-sleeve golf shirts, sitting plump in their seats” are yesterday’s Christians. Among younger activists, they inspire the rolling of eyes—they are the embodiment of an ineffective boomer approach to taking over the United States for Jesus.

In their place, a group of young pastors hope to spearhead a Christian nationalist glow-up as they eagerly await a “Christian prince” to rule America. These often bearded thirty- and fortysomethings have suits that actually fit. They are extremely online, constantly posting on myriad platforms, broadcasting their YouTube shows from mancaves, and convening an endless stream of conferences for likeminded followers. Let’s call them, as one scholar I spoke with did, the TheoBros.

For all their youthful modishness, this group is actually more conservative than their older counterparts. Many TheoBros, for example, don’t think women belong in the pulpit or the voting booth—and even want to repeal the 19th Amendment. For some, prison reform would involve replacing incarceration with public flogging. Unlike more mainstream Christian nationalists, like House Speaker Mike Johnson, who are obsessed with the US Constitution, many TheoBros believe that the Constitution is dead and that we should be governed by the Ten Commandments.

In American Reformer, their unofficial magazine, hagiographies of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco appear alongside full-throated defenses of countries that execute gay people. On podcasts, the TheoBros unpack “the perils of multiculturalism,” expose “Burning Man’s wicked agenda,” and peel back the nefarious feminist plot of Taylor Swift. In Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism, one of their seminal texts, he writes that in an ideal Christian nation, heretics could be executed.

The rise of the TheoBros worries more mainstream religious conservatives. Janet Mefferd, a former Christian radio host and journalist who tracks their ascendancy, says her community is alarmed to see an extremist movement gaining traction. “I’m not sure what the endgame is, other than they want to advance Christian nationalism,” she says. “But a lot of us find that terrifying.”

“I’m not sure what the endgame is, other than they want to advance Christian nationalism—but a lot of us find that terrifying.”

The TheoBros’ strategy is bottom-up: They aim to convert small American towns into Christian enclaves. But it is also top-down: Some are working to position themselves close to the locus of federal power. Vance, a Catholic convert married to a Hindu, would seem an unlikely hero for a movement of devout Protestants who believe in a homogeneous America. But over the last few years, his political orbit has increasingly overlapped with that of the TheoBros—so much so that to careful observers, his public echoes of their ideas are beginning to sound less like coincidence and more like dog whistles.

And those dog whistles signal the major themes of this election: hypermasculinity, declining birthrates, ethnonationalism—and no small measure of carefully curated misogyny. If you want to know some of the actors who red-pilled Vance, or at least those who flock to him, you need to meet the TheoBros.

Clockwise from top-left: Douglas Wilson, Joel Webbon, Josh Abbotoy, Andrew Isker, William Wolfe, and Brian SauvéYouTube

With no meetings, website, or an explicit statement of faith that unifies their beliefs, the TheoBros are not an official organization. They identify with 16th-century French theologian John Calvin, who spawned a rigid and deterministic form of Protestantism. Julie Ingersoll, a University of North Florida religion scholar, traces the current movement back to R.J. Rushdoony, an Armenian American philosopher who popularized the idea of Christian nationalism (and homeschooling) in the early 1970s.

Out of Rushdoony’s movement emerged two camps: the charismatic Christians, now known as the New Apostolic Reformation, and the reformed Protestants, which include the TheoBros. They share the goal of creating a Christian nation, says Ingersoll, but differ on a key point of theology: Adherents of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that God is still speaking directly to people through pastors who have declared themselves apostles and prophets. The TheoBros, meanwhile, believe that God said all he needed to say in the Bible.

Many TheoBros are also proponents of postmillennialism, the idea that believers can hasten Jesus’ return by fighting against the satanic forces of liberal excess. TheoBro Aaron Renn, an Accenture consultant turned Christian pundit, has described our current era as a “negative world,” where Christians are persecuted for their beliefs. Andrew Isker, another Bro, calls it “trashworld.”

Like all self-respecting millennials, the TheoBros have little tolerance for boomers, with the exception of their patriarch, Douglas Wilson, a 71-year-old pastor in Moscow, Idaho. When he was younger, Wilson imagined himself going into the family business—Christian bookstores—but after a stint in the military, he moved to Moscow in 1975 to study philosophy at the University of Idaho, where he became involved with the Jesus People, a kind of mashup of evangelical and hippie culture. He helped found Christ Church, the congregation over which he still presides and that regularly draws crowds of 1,300.

Wilson has since turned the college town into his own Christian kingdom. He helped found New Saint Andrews College, the Canon Press publishing house, and Logos School, one of the nation’s first classical Christian schools, where students exclusively study the Western canon. Wilson embraced Calvinism in 1988 and remade his church from the freewheeling Jesus People hub into something far more sober and buttoned-up, where women couldn’t be church leaders and the only music allowed was hymns and psalms. In the early 1990s, Wilson helped launch the Association of Classical Christian Schools, which had 502 member institutions across the United States as of March 2023.

“The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”

His influence over Moscow has not been without controversy. In a 2021 Vice exposé, former members of Christ Church alleged that ministers had encouraged them to stay in abusive relationships. That tracks with Wilson’s 1999 book, Fidelity: How to Be a One-Woman Man, in which he wrote, “The sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party. A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.” For that reason, Wilson wrote, the dynamic of a dominant man and a submissive woman is “an erotic necessity.” (Wilson called allegations of the church urging women to stay in abusive relationships “categorically false.”)

Wilson has also promoted another form of dominance. In the 1996 book Southern Slavery: As It Was, Wilson and his co-author argued that the master-slave dynamic was “a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence,” and “there has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world” as that of the antebellum South. (In a 2020 blog post, Wilson said he now allows that while “the benevolent master is not a myth, the idea of the horrific taskmaster is no abolitionist myth either.”) When I asked Wilson about his controversial statements, he likened himself to a chef who strategically deploys jalapeno peppers: “Then some of my enemies online have combed through my writings, have gathered up all the jalapenos and put them on one Ritz cracker.”

:In July, at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, DC, Wilson shared the stage with Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah), as well as Vance, who auditioned his “America is a people” bit a week before his star turn at the GOP convention. Wilson agrees with Vance’s suggestion that children should be allotted votes, managed by their parents. “I would like to see elections where households vote,” he told me. Men, as the heads of households, would actually cast the votes. Though he believes that women’s suffrage was “a mistake,” he would allow a special exception for single mothers.}:

Wilson offered the crowd a few one-liners (“I’m a Presbyterian, not a Lesbyterian”), but mostly, he talked about the persecution of Christians. “It used to be that the sexually troubled had to keep their kinks hidden away in the closet,” he mused. “Now it is the conservative Christian who needs to keep his virtues hidden in the recesses of the closet.” After the National Conservatism Conference, Wilson appeared at the Believers’ Summit, which was headlined by Trump and hosted by the conservative political group Turning Point USA.

But it’s not just conferences and interviews with the likes of where Wilson promotes his ideas. He has a blog, a podcast, and a YouTube channel, thanks mostly to the urging of his children and younger colleagues. One example is that every year since 2018, Wilson has been celebrating what he calls No Quarter November: “The month where we say out loud what everyone is thinking.” In a, which was the brainchild of one of his sons, Wilson sits at a sumptuously appointed Thanksgiving table, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and addresses the camera. “If you think of my blog as a shotgun,” he says, “this is the month when I saw off all my typical, careful qualifications and blast away with a double-barreled shorty.” His wife, clad in an apron, brings out a turkey and places it in front of him, and then the tranquil scene is interrupted by a blaring alarm and a glowing red “perimeter breach” sign. Wilson excuses himself, heads to his garage, and straps on a flamethrower. After using it to light a cigar, he aims the fire at cardboard cutouts of Disney princesses Elsa and Ariel, and the logos of Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Netflix.

Wilson’s willingness to make campy content sets him apart, says Rachel Tabachnick, an extremism researcher who has been studying Christian nationalism for decades. “Instead of a crotchety old guy talking about stoning people, he’s like, super cool,” she says. “He’s witty.”

In subsequent videos, Wilson tackled women’s culpability in rape, the dark side of empathy, and the virtues of “something called the patriarchy—that which, according to our soi-disant and lisping political theorists, must be smashed. Only they say something like ‘thmasth.’”

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Wilson has used his platforms to anoint the next generation of ultraconservative reformed Christian pastors, all of whom happened to be men. Mefferd, the conservative Christian journalist, told me that Wolfe’s The Case for Christian Nationalism got traction in mainstream Christian circles in part “because Doug Wilson endorsed.” Another Wilson is Joel Webbon, a 38-year-old pastor who hosts a podcast and YouTube show, which he films from a wingback leather chair in a book-lined room.

Webbon wasn’t always reformed—he is an alumnus of a Bible school run by a New Apostolic Reformation affiliated outfit, which he now considers “straight-up heretical.” In his 20s, he broke from the group, moved to Texas, and started his own church. In a video from a few years ago, Webbon Wilson with emboldening him to say whatever he wanted—like telling a guest that the Founding Fathers weren’t responsible for the slave trade because Africans had done the actual kidnapping and enslaving.

“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.”

For Webbon, it was intensely liberating to watch Wilson speak in public without worrying about being canceled. “You stay in your little corner, you stay on your little leash, because you’re like, I don’t know what will happen,” Webbon said. “But when you see some other guy do it, and you’re like—that’s the worst thing that can happen? Vice writes an article about you? [Christianity Today editor-in-chief] Russell Moore won’t invite you to his birthday party anymore? Like, that’s it.” At a, he registered dismay over immigrants in his community. “It’s like full, straight-up Hindu garb at our neighborhood swimming pool, that my daughter is asking [about and] I’m trying to explain.”

In August, he remarked on his show that “a lot of people are gonna be surprised” when “you’re spending eternity worshipping Christ next to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and Jonathan Edwards, and, you know, George Whitefield and Martin Luther King Jr.’s in hell.”

Webbon is so impressed by his own audacity that he maintains an online list of all the controversies in which he’s become embroiled. There, he explains why he called Christian men living in California “stupid” (they could just move to a red state); why he once ordered his wife to stop reading a book on theology (he didn’t want her exposed to beliefs that were different from his own); and why he believes in a patriarchal household structure (the Bible says so). Webbon, who is planning to host a conference in Texas next spring called “Christ Is King: How to Defeat Trashworld!” maintains that a “return to the Constitution is impossible” and that the only viable alternative is the Ten Commandments.

Some of Wilson’s other acolytes are attempting to create their own versions of Moscow, Idaho. Take Brian Sauvé, a 33-year-old Christian recording artist, podcaster, and pastor of Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah. Like Webbon, Sauvé wasn’t always reformed—Refuge began as a charismatic Christian church. After the lead pastor resigned in a scandal, the then-24-year-old Sauvé ascended to take his place, immersed himself in reformed theology, and moved the church in a new direction. Today, he presides over a Moscow-esque ecosystem: a publishing house called New Christendom Press, as well as St. Brendan’s Classical Christian Academy, modeled after those in Wilson’s network. “Can you feel it in the sails?” reads St. Brendan’s website. “The stiff breeze out of Moscow, Idaho? We can.”

On his three podcasts and to his more than 53,000 followers on X, Sauvé regularly states that women’s primary function is to bear children. In July, after Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies who are miserable” began widely circulating, he posted: “It is desperately sad to think of all the intentionally barren women who will find themselves totally alone in their 50s, realizing their irreversible mistake. They will wish they could trade it all—money, vacations, independence, all of it—for children they can now never have.”

But unlike more mainstream conservatives, Sauvé does not even pretend to champion the idea of a Judeo-Christian nation. He posted in July, “[O]ur political system is heavily influenced by Jews who reject Christ and embrace all manner of evils.”

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 Project 2025 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 of American Reformer. (The publication’s cofounder, Nate Fischer, later clarified to Mother Jones that Buskirk’s listing in the filing had been a clerical error, and that he was actually a board member of American Reformer.) 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?”

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.”

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 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 who brought TheoBro ideas to the wider world. In his book, which was praised by editors at the Federalist and theAmerican 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.”

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 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?”

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 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.”

*Correction, September 19: An earlier version of this article inaccurately described Chris Buskirk’s role at American Reformer.

Update, January 14: After this story was published, Nate Fischer, CEO of New Founding and co-founder of American Reformer, clarified toMother Jonesthat Buskirk’s listing in tax filings as the editor and publisher ofAmerican Reformerhad been a “clerical error (presumably copying his bio fromAmerican Greatness, where he was editor and publisher)” and that Buskirk was actually a board member ofAmerican Reformer. The sentence has been revised.*

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10/09/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Earlier this year, far-right Christian nationalist activist C. Jay Engel gloated that with the return of the Trump administration to power, representatives of the online right are now in power.

"We have our guys are in Washington and I think that the momentum is on our side," Engel declared. "This isn't going away."

On Wednesday, Engel—a virulently anti-immigrant commentator and podcast host who has cheered on the administration's brutal deportation campaign, called for the "repeal of the Twentieth Century," and for Taylor Swift to be "arrested and executed"—appeared on "The Green Tavern" podcast, where he bragged that he personally knows that multiple people who share his far-right worldview are stationed in positions of power throughout Washington, D.C.

"I really think that in the last two or three years, Americans understand the existential nature of what we're going through," Engel said. "We always laugh about the grill Americans and the people that would just rather watch the football game than get involved in politics, and I think that is basically no longer the chief characteristic of young right-wing men. I think they really do care a lot."

"With [President Donald] Trump and Stephen Miller and [Vice President J.D.] Vance, maybe we can't say they're perfect, but we can say that our guys are getting into positions of influence," Engel added. "And I can say for certain, because I know some of these people, that there are very good right-wing Heritage Americans in staff positions all over Washington. And I trust them, I know them, and good things are happening."

The term "Heritage American" is, when used by Engel and his ilk, essentially a euphemism for a form of anti-immigrant white nationalism that insists only those whose ancestors have been in this country for several generations truly qualify as Americans.

"We just have to continue to fight and double down," Engel continued. "The American right wing of 2026 needs to make the American right wing of 2025 look like liberals, and that we need to do that every single year. We need to push the Overton Window. And I think that we really have a bright future ahead of us. It's going to be some struggle, probably some violence, but I think our children will be able to take up where we've left off. And so I would encourage everyone to just keep pushing it because we're doing great things."

09/04/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Drenda Keesee warns that the Equality Act is "spiritual warfare cloaked in civil rights language."
C. Jay Engel has a message for immigrants: "If you’re trying your best to assimilate, then you haven’t assimilated. It’s not natural to you, so you have to put in effort. But true culture is instinctual, and it flows out of inborn inclinations; there’s nothing you can do about it, and it makes no sense to try. It’s who you are."
Heidi St. John cheers on Florida's decision to eliminate vaccine requirement: "THIS IS WHAT I VOTED FOR!" Given that St. John lives in Washington, we're not sure exactly how this is possible.
Caleb Collier doesn't really care what former President Barack Obama has to say: "I really don't take historical advice from somebody who is not a citizen of the U.S."
Finally, Shane Vaughn blasts MAGA activists for criticizing President Donald Trump for calling the Epstein files a "hoax": "Why are we such fair weather friends?"

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Robert McCoy @ The New Republic: Supreme Court Caves to Trump in Ominous Birthright Citizenship Ruling

The Supreme Court has just limited the ability of lower courts to rein in Donald Trump’s anti-constitutional orders.

Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The Supreme Court just imposed a “Don’t Say Gay” regime on every public school in America

The Republican justices’ decision fundamentally altered how public schools must operate.

Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: The Other Reason MAGA Is Melting Down Over Iran

Christian nationalists are fighting over Israel’s role in the “end times.”

Angry White Men: Andrew Isker: Witchcraft ‘Stopped Working’ When European Christians Arrived In The Americas

On The Auron MacIntyre Show, white Christian nationalist Andrew Isker claimed that witchcraft “stopped working” in the Americas after the arrival of European Christians. Isker also appeared to defend the Salem witch trials, asserting that “weird stuff” happened at the time which had “no rational explanation whatsoever.”

Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Sean Duffy turns military graduation into blatant ad for Christian Nationalism

The Transportation Secretary pushed Christian Nationalism during his address at the Merchant Marine Academy, sidelining real issues.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: California’s Gavin Newsom sues Fox News, seeking a very specific amount of money

The Democratic governor is seeking more than $787 million — and if that figure sounds at all familiar, there’s a good reason for that.

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06/04/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Christian nationalist Andrew Isker thinks that "in order to restore the original constitutional order and the rights therein, it requires a unitary executive" and "I would like to dissolve Congress and the judiciary and vest all power into a sovereign ruler named Donald J. Trump."
Fellow Christian nationalist Joel Webbon is now approvingly quoting fascist dictators: "For my enemies, the Law."
We are just going to archive this comment from Kandiss Taylor standing by her assertion that Muslims should be banned from serving in government for when she inevitably tries to claim she never said it.
Seth Gruber would "love to be black" because he thinks it would benefit his anti-choice efforts: "Black privilege is a real thing."
Finally, Jackson Lahmeyer says the religious-right MAGA movement is working to "make the Johnson Amendment one of the issues at the forefront to mobilize, to energize the Christian community to get out and vote" in the 2026 midterms.

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Kyle Mantyla

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Kristi Noem flunks an important test on the basic meaning of habeas corpus

The homeland security secretary was asked to define habeas corpus. Her outrageously wrong answer was humiliating — but it was also important.

Alex Marquardt, Kristen Holmes and Natasha Bertrand @ CNN: Sources contradict Trump narrative about Qatar offering plane as ‘gift’

The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That’s contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a “gift” to him.

Angry White Men: Andrew Isker Blames Signalgate Scandal On Israel

In March, news broke that then-National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly added a journalist to a clandestine Signal chat where attack plans were being discussed. Although Waltz eventually resigned, white Christian nationalist Andrew Isker claimed that something more sinister was afoot, and that Israel was likely involved.

Charisma Madarang @ Rolling Stone: Trump Admin Charges House Democrat After ICE Scrum

Rep. LaMonica McIver called the charges against her “purely political” and said the administration will not stop her from “standing up for what is right”

John Fea @ Christianity Today: From the Manhattan Elite to MAGA Populism

Today’s overtly political and unapologetically pro-Trump Eric Metaxas was once a winsome voice in New York City’s evangelical intellectual renaissance.

David J. Bier @ Cato At Liberty: 50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law

Shortly after the US government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s horrific “terrorism” prison on March 15, CBS News published their names. A subsequent CBS News investigation found that 75 percent of the men on that list had no criminal record in the United States or abroad. Less attention has been paid to the fact that dozens of these men never violated immigration laws either.

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04/14/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Joel Webbon says that things were great for Black Americans during segregation until "it all came crashing down with civil rights [and] welfare."
Andrew Isker praises the Trump administration's deportation policies for sending the message to immigrants that "we might accidentally put you in the most brutal prison in the world. Oops. You better get out of the country now."
Kandiss Taylor shares her thoughts on the origins of the universe: "Explosions kill. They don’t give life. Big bang theory is the most idiotic theory ever spoken, written, and perpetuated. This theory should be deleted from school curriculum. It just brainwashes children to keep them from finding their Savior."
C. Jay Engel declares that "the Great Replacement needs to be seen as a religious war on Christendom": "It’s all about facilitating ancient religious conflict and continuing the eradication of the Christian character of the West."
Is Joshua Haymes being racist or misogynistic or both?
Finally, Kevin Roberts and William Wolfe have a recommendation for President Donald Trump: "With the 2,000th anniversary of Christ’s resurrection just eight years away, Trump can lead the charge by announcing plans for huge national celebrations in spring 2033."

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04/14/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump leans into the idea of sending American criminals to a Salvadoran prison

Trump has spent months talking about deporting American criminals. The White House has said it’s a real idea. Maybe we should take the threat seriously.

Hannah Allam @ ProPublica: American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

Rümeysa Öztürk’s arrest and detention reveal what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the street level.

Jonathan Mahler @ The New York Times Magazine: How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin’s Russia

What explains the Trump administration’s radical reversal toward Moscow?

David Gilmour @ Mediaite: Trump Demands FCC Punish ‘CBS Fake News’ for ‘Out Of Control’ 60 Minutes: ‘They Should Pay a Big Price’

President Donald Trump launched a new attack on 60 Minutes, this time demanding regulatory retribution over recent segments on Ukraine and Greenland — calling on “highly respected” FCC chair Brendan Carr to “impose the maximum fines and punishment” possible on “out of control” network CBS.

Alex Galbraith @ Salon: "He's going to have a third term": Bannon tells Maher Trump is sticking around in 2028

Bannon's comments come after Trump shared he's "not joking" about an unconstitutional third-term.

Will Neal @ The Daily Beast: DOJ Wants to Give Capitol Rioters a Refund for Damage They Caused

Court documents filed this week suggest some insurrectionists could receive a check for their troubles.

Warren Throckmorton @ Telling Jefferson Lies: Mike Johnson's False Jefferson Prayer: The Rest of the Story

On January 3, 2025, Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson was re-elected to be Speaker of the House. In his acceptance speech, he quoted a prayer that he said Thomas Jefferson said every day during his presidency and every day of his life thereafter. There is a problem with this story. The prayer was written 56 years after Jefferson died. Jefferson never said the prayer even one day of his life.

John Fea @ The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Expect to see more David Barton in the coming year

This past week David and Tim were invited to the White House as part of a team planning special faith focused events for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Melody Schreiber @ The New Republic: Measles Is Spreading, and RFK Jr. Is Praising Quacks

Last week, an 8-year-old girl became the second child and the third person to die of measles in the current outbreak. But it was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, who dominated the news cycle.

Phil Williams @ News Channel 5: Men behind Tennessee's Christian nationalist settlement: 'This country belongs to Jesus,' not the Jews

Andrew Isker compares Jews to "foster children," who cannot be trusted with the family credit card. C.Jay Engel argues Jews "have largely operated at odds with the Old American way of life."

Christine Fernando @ The Associated Press: An emboldened anti-abortion faction wants women who have abortions to face criminal charges

As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights activists. But more recently, fellow abortion opponents, who call themselves abortion abolitionists, are showing up to her booths with signs, often screaming “baby killer” at her while she speaks with students. Hawkins has had to send alerts to donors asking them to help pay for increased security.

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Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The Supreme Court just made it easier for Trump to deport people

On Monday night, the Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision tossing out a closely watched district court decision, which blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to use a 227-year-old law — the Alien Enemies Act — to deport many individuals without due process. The Court largely voted along party lines, although Republican Justice Amy Coney Barrett crossed over to dissent with the three Democratic justices.

Angry White Men: Candace Owens: ‘The Beatles Was Totally A Psychological Operation’

In an interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist Ian Carroll, Candace Owens claimed that The Beatles “was totally a psychological operation.” Owens also called Volodymyr Zelensky a “literal actor” who was trained by the CIA, and said Emmanuel Macron was “installed as president of France with the Rothschilds behind him.”

Jesse Eisinger @ ProPublica: No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression. Here’s the real history.

Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: 'Gay beam machine': Right-wing pastor makes startling claim about airport scanner

Andrew Isker, who co-hosts with C. Jay Engel what he calls "the number one Christian nationalist podcast in the world," shared his unconventional and homophobic views on the Transportation Safety Administration's security scanners.

Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: Christian “TheoBros” Are Building a Tech Utopia in Appalachia

A couple of years ago, Andrew Isker, a pastor and father of six, made a big decision. He would move his family away from Minnesota, where six generations of his ancestors had lived before him, to a rural community in Tennessee.

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02/27/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Andrew Tate Is on His Way to the U.S. Thanks to Trump

The misogynist facing charges of human trafficking is on a plane back to the United States.

Angry White Men: Christian Nationalist Podcasters Interview Holocaust Denier Ron Unz

As part of a new interview series, white Christian nationalists C. Jay Engel and Andrew Isker spoke with Ron Unz about Charles Lindbergh and World War II. A well-known Holocaust denier, Unz has written that the Holocaust was a “hoax” and that Jews have a “notorious tendency to lie and dissemble.”

Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: GOP Congressman: It's OK if Elon fires you since "God has a plan and purpose for your life"

Republican Congressman Mark Alford of Missouri offered thoughtless religious platitudes to his constituents.

Janna Brancolini @ The Daily Beast: Johnson Tries to Shrug Off Anti-DOGE Town Halls as the Work of ‘Paid Protesters’

> Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed Wednesday that Americans who attended recent rowdy Republican town halls were “paid protesters.”

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02/26/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Jackson Lahmeyer says the criticism over Paula White being tapped to head the White House Faith Office is coming primarily from "men in ministry that don't like women in ministry."
Tony Perkins declares that "justice cannot exist without God's moral law. A society that rejects the transcendent truth of the Bible will have no foundation for lasting justice."
Andew Isker asserts that "if you ever say 'as a [x]-American, we should…' you are not a heritage American" and therefore are not loyal to what is best for America: "You are an economic zone American."
Joshua Haymes proclaims it "indefensible" for any Christian to believe that "gay couples should have the right to adopt children": "We should be looking to BOTH legislate and stigmatize this wickedness into oblivion."
Finally, Shane Vaughn cheers on the chaos being sown by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk because "we voted for chaos."

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02/24/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Dave Kubal of Intercessors for America reports that he was "blessed to pray over Secretary Hegseth today in our visit to the White House as part of the NEW Faith Office!"
Johnny Enlow attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference and bragged that many important people who are "household names" told him they fans of his work.
Andrew Isker asserts that the practice of slavery in America was not a sin: "I'm not going to call something a sin that the Bible does not condemn as a sin."
Rick Joyner declares that "Elon Musk and his DOGE team are some of the greatest American heroes we've had, along with Donald Trump, who would release such a force for saving our country. The brilliance behind all that is now happening is beyond human, and is sure evidence that the Lord's grace has been shed upon us."
Finally, Joel Webbon says that his goal is to "return to the old ways": "We are not the anomaly. The 20th Century and Western Civilization and [modern] Christendom, that's the anomaly."

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02/24/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Last year, far-right Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon teamed up with fellow Christian nationalist pastor Andrew Isker for a multi-part podcast on the topic of Judaism.

Given that Webbon is a notorious antisemite and that Isker co-wrote "Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guide For Taking Dominion And Discipling Nations" with Andrew Torba, the virulently antisemitic founder of the social media platform Gab, it was no surprise to find that their series echoed those views.

The series had initially required a membership to Webbon's Patreon account to watch, but this year he began airing it for free on his YouTube channel. In the episode that aired last Friday, Isker and Webbon railed against the term "Judeo-Christian," insisting that Judaism has no place in the United States because "this country belongs to Jesus."

"What is the Judeo-Christian thing?" asked Isker. "We think it's the antidote to secularism to say, 'Oh, we need to return to our Judeo-Christian traditions.' It's not. To use the phrase 'Judeo-Christian,' you might as well put a coexist bumper sticker on your car."

"This country belongs to Jesus," Isker continued. "He is God. This is his; not any other people but his people. Therefore, if you want these blessings and benefits, you need to join yourself to him alone."

"The idea that [Jews] are the special people that we need to carve out some space for them and give them a seat at the table and all of these things, no, you're putting the coexist bumper sticker on your car," he added. "You're rejecting the exclusivity of Christ if you do that. When we talk about things like Christian nationalism—which really just is a synonym for Christendom—it's not Judeo-Christendom."

"It's Christian nationalism, not Judeo-Christian nationalism," Webbon agreed. "If you want to ensure that whatever Christian nationalism we might attain, if you want to ensure that it's immediately lost, then make it Judeo-Christian nationalism."

"We have Judeo-Christian nationalism right now," Webbon continued. "It's called pluralism, it's called polytheism, it's called idolatry, it's called secularism, it's called perversion. We already have Judeo-Christian nationalism. We would like to have just Christian nationalism."

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02/10/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Eric Metaxas embraces the PizzaGate conspiracy theory while declaring that "the Democratic Party is the party of pedophilia. Which is Satanic."
Jon Miller explains the real appeal of MAGA hats: "The only thing that made the maga hat cool is that it was white nationalist coded ... you were giving a nod to an america that existed before it was infested with immigrants, faggots, and free blacks."
John Doyle claims that women "who are radically left-wing" want to "date guys like me" because "they can't help but be sort of attracted to how radical our politics are."
C. Jay Engel wants to ban rap music: "Rap was a catalyst of cultural revolution. It was a tool of Elites to degrade Heritge America."
Andrew Isker says that if any country receives U.S. foreign aid, then "these places should be colonies of America": "We should be able to exploit all their natural resources as much as we want."

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02/06/2025

Kyle Mantyla

Elijah Schaffer doesn't want the Holocaust taught in American schools: "No more catering to subversive minorities."
MAGA pastor Mark Burns was "honored to host my friend NYC Mayor Eric Adams" at the National Prayer Breakfast.
Andrew Isker says that Rep. Ilhan Omar "should not even be here much less wielding political power over us": "She has to go back."
Eric Metaxas claims that USAID is "a satanic attempt to destroy the United States of America": "Every patriot should do all he can to war against it."
Finally, Joel Webbon declares that "the left has to be absolutely overwhelmed, they have to be crushed ... to the point where they are overcome with despair, they have zero hope and they just lose the will to even try."

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David Gilbert and Vittoria Elliott @ Wired: In Pews Across America, Evangelicals Are Told That God Wants Donald Trump

The weekend before the election, one Pennsylvania pastor told congregants that hosting Elon Musk weeks earlier was “phenomenal.” In Nevada, another dressed as a garbageman while urging his flock to vote Trump.

Stephanie McCrummen @ The Atlantic: This Just in From Heaven

What a growing pro-Trump Christian movement tells viewers of its premier news show.

Kathryn Post @ Religion News Service: Charlie Kirk's TPUSA opens a new front in 'spiritual warfare' on Christian campuses

Since 2020, TPUSA chapters have appeared at more than 45 Christian colleges or universities, at least 35 of them affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the largest association of Christian schools.

Angry White Men: ‘There’s Gonna Be Some Crying Little Babies’: Andrew Isker Defends Trump’s Deportation Plan

On their Contra Mundum podcast, white, Christian nationalists Andrew Isker and C. Jay Engel defended Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, even at the cost of separating immigrant families. Isker remarked that in order to ensure U.S. citizens aren’t killed by immigrants “there’s gonna be some crying little babies.”

Kat Abughazaleh @ Mother Jones: Watch Fox News Melt Down Over Wives Voting Independently

Mother Jones creator Kat Abughazaleh argues that Watters’ reaction reveals the fierce undercurrent of sexist resentment coursing through this year’s campaign, typified by Donald Trump, who just this week ominously vowed to protect women, “whether the women like it or not.”

Maurício Alencar @ The Daily Beast: Neo-Nazi Influencer Nick Fuentes Now Says ‘Trumpism Is a Cult’

Neo-Nazi personality Nick Fuentes has ridiculed Donald Trump for dressing up as a garbage man, despite once being one of his most outspoken supporters and former dinner guests. In a rant on his channel, the white nationalist streamer said MAGA was indeed a cult.

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10/23/2024

Kyle Mantyla

Todd Starnes declares that "the only people behaving like fascists are the Democrats": "The only Hitler I see is a Democrat wearing a pantsuit cackling like a drunken fool."
Mark Meckler thinks that Donald Trump's stint at McDonald's was "the single best political stunt that I've seen in my lifetime."
Andrew Isker hopes that in a second Trump term, they will "replace Earth Day with Nixon Day."
Drenda Keesee urges voters to oppose Ohio's anti-gerrymandering amendment otherwise "conservatives will not win anymore."
Finally, having abjectly surrendered in his feeble "Groyper War II" effort against the Trump campaign, white nationalist Nick Fuentes is trying to save face by placing a billboard in Atlanta ahead of an upcoming Trump rally.

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Dalton Clodfelter declares that "women shouldn’t have rights."
Jackson Lahmeyer warns that "the future Antichrist will be a HOMOSEXUAL of Jewish descent."
Eric Trump says that his family has done all it can to save the United States, but if Evangelical voters don't show up at the polls, America will not survive.
Andrew Isker and C. Jay Engel think it's safe for them to say radical things because Right Wing Watch doesn't know who they are. Surprise!

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Finally, poor John Amanchukwu encountered an all gender restroom and was traumatized.

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Discussing MMT Through the Eyes of a Socialist

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Author:Robert P. Murphy C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:April 8, 2019

Category:Other Schools of Thought,Biographies,Free Markets,Health

Bob shares an interview he did on C. Jay Engel’s podcast, Austro-Libertarian , where they discussed Doug Henwood’s critique of MMT that ran in the socialist publication, Jacobin magazine . Henwood’s article was an excellent summary of the academic roots of MMT, and thus supplements the pragmatic discussions (from the perspective of Warren Mosler)

Billionaires Already Gave Their “Fair Share”

Mises Wire

Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:February 13, 2019

Category:Taxes and Spending

It is becoming increasingly fashionable to agitate against the very existence of billionaires. Recently, for instance, Business Insider summarized a statement of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as follows: “[she] said a society that “allows billionaires to exist” while some Americans live in abject poverty is “immoral.” Echoing this

Capitalist Investment: The Greatest Type of Charity

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:March 15, 2019

In our time of rising socialistic rhetoric and indignation against those who have great levels of wealth, we also encounter the idea that the use of wealth for charitable purposes is better for society, perhaps even more moral, than the use of wealth for business development and capital investment. Few interpretations of social affairs are as

Even Socialists Know that Economic Planning Requires Market Prices

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:April 3, 2019

Category:Calculation and Knowledge,Philosophy and Methodology,Socialism

In a recent editorial at Jacobin magazine, it is argued that a “planned economy can actually work.” They start with something I have written about at least a dozen times recently: the definition of socialism. Let me not mince words: our ability to argue against the rising left’s socialism is going to depend on what exactly is being argued. If

Why Bother Studying Economic Theory?

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:April 16, 2019

What is most exciting about the Austrian methodology of economic inquiry is that, to quote Mises himself, it does not relegate economics to the classrooms, to the “statistical offices,” and to “esoteric circles.” It instead offers to all who seek such knowledge, a body of insights as to how men relate to other men and how society itself developed

In Our Hyper-Political World, Political Ideology Is More Important Than It Should Be

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:June 17, 2019

The thesis here is that libertarianism as a political theory only carries the veneer of importance and centrality due to the strength and power of the democratic, administrative state in our time. Everywhere we look, we see the influence and effect of the state as an apparatus that guides and oversees the machinations of modern civilization. We

Hunter Lewis: Will Janet Yellen Lend Trump a Helping Hand?

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:February 7, 2017

Category:Big Government,The Fed,U.S. Economy

CNBC claims that the Fed has been “crying wolf” and will back off raising interest rates even a tiny bit more. See the article by Hunter Lewis on the Mises Wire : Will Janet Yellen Lend Trump a Helping Hand?

Rate Hike Guessing Games

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:February 9, 2017

Category:The Fed,U.S. Economy

For those that follow the Fed’s rate hike hoopla, one of the more obnoxious aspects is all the “economist expectations” that are reported on throughout the year. They’ve been vocalizing their lousy expectations since 2010. Consider this one, based on a survey of “leading economists: 2012 came and went and there were no hikes. And every year since

Tarullo Bails!

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Author:C.Jay Engel

Online Publish Date:February 10, 2017

Category:The Fed

The WSJ is reporting that Daniel Tarullo has submitted a resignation letter and will be departing the Fed Board in early April. This is an interesting resignation in light of the recent regime change in Washington. One narrative of the Trump administration has been “deregulation.” The WSJ notes that one of the two (now three) vacancies on the

Showdown: Yellen and Trump

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Online Publish Date:February 13, 2017

Category:The Fed

On most fronts, the Trump era is off with a bang — both upsetting the status quo, but also offending numerous Austro-libertarian free market principles. Particularly, there is growing tension within the spheres of monetary and regulatory policy. Those who made themselves comfortable in the Obama administration are swiftly being uprooted by a new

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Sep 11, 2023 — I am going to begin with a brief review of Andrew Isker's book, The Boniface Option. After that, I am going to interact a bit more with Rod Dreher's review of ...

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