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- Robert Jeffress accuses James Talarico of attempting to "prostitute the name of Jesus Christ, to turn the Jesus of the Bible into some woke Messiah that is contrary to what the Bible teaches."
- William Wolfe was very offended by the latest Toy Story film: "It was feminist slop with Jesse as the 'girl boss' and Buzz Lightyear totally emasculated."
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William Wolfe declares that "Derek Chauvin is in jail because of one thing and one thing only: Anti-White Racism. The only 'crime' he committed is being born with White skin."
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- Elisabeth Zerofsky @ The New York Times Magazine: What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
- The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
- Robert Kuttner @ The American Prospect: Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup
- If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off.
- Nikki McCann Ramírez and Jack Crosbie @ Rolling Stone: MAGA Rep. Allegedly Assaulted Wife, Put Gun to Her Head. Republicans Don’t Care
- Max Miller is the subject a string of disturbing allegations. His party doesn’t seem to mind.
- GPAHE: The Inside Man: William Wolfe and the Capture of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Wolfe is the Christian nationalist movement’s inside man. Others preach for converts or run for office. Wolfe captures institutions that already exist. When the first Trump administration ended, he took a fellowship at Russ Vought’s think tank, the Center for Renewing America, where the work was planning the next Trump term. In March 2024, he turned the same method on his own denomination, which keeps a pulpit in nearly every county in the South.
Editor’s note: This profile is part of a GPAHE series examining the people shaping American Christian nationalism in post–Project 2025 America. Christian nationalism is distinct from Christianity itself; mainstream churches have publicly rejected the movement as a distortion of the Christian faith. The figures profiled here are the architects of a theocratic, political project working to fuse American national identity with conservative Christian supremacist rule and dismantle democratic institutions.
He helped Project 2025 architect Russ Vought scope out “a sound Christian Nationalism,” and has pushed the 12.3 million members of the Southern Baptist Convention toward Christian nationalist policies. In June, the denomination elected the president he campaigned for.
Key Takeaways
- Wolfe served in Trump’s Pentagon and State Department and calls himself a Christian nationalist. He helped draft the 2023 manifesto demanding that American law acknowledge “the Lordship of Christ.” That October, he made his case to the audience of white supremacist Stew Peters, who calls for executing Democratic officials.
- His Center for Baptist Leadership launched in March 2024, telling the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest US Protestant denomination, to elect leaders willing to call its documented sexual abuse crisis a lie.
- Wolfe endorsed Willy Rice and spent two years campaigning for him. Rice won the SBC presidency on June 9, 2026. A constitutional ban on women pastors cleared its first vote the next morning.
- In April 2026, Wolfe campaigned for Rice on an all-male far-right club’s podcast, days after one of its hosts answered a comparison between the movement’s deportation politics and the Ku Klux Klan with a video celebrating the Klan: “Yes, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.”
A few hours before the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) handed out presidential ballots in Orlando on June 9, 2026, Willy Rice stood at a lunchtime forum and told a room of young SBC pastors what he thought of their denomination’s decade. “I’m afraid … we’re going to hug ourselves to death,” he said. “We are going to wake up one day and be Kodak or Blockbuster.” That afternoon, the Clearwater, Fla. pastor, who had waved off the SBC’s sexual abuse crisis as closer to hoax than fact, took 5,217 votes — 57 percent — and the presidency of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
The man behind Rice’s talking points holds no office in the SBC. He has never pastored a church. Christian nationalist William Wolfe spent seven months as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the first Trump administration, and the day Rice won, he told Religion News Service the election was “a major vindication of the issues we have addressed and fought for.” Three months earlier, on March 14, 2026, from the pulpit of Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, Wolfe had explained what those issues add up to: “Frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you.”
Wolfe is the Christian nationalist movement’s inside man. Others preach for converts or run for office. Wolfe captures institutions that already exist. When the first Trump administration ended, he took a fellowship at Russ Vought’s think tank, the Center for Renewing America, where the work was planning the next Trump term. In March 2024, he turned the same method on his own denomination, which keeps a pulpit in nearly every county in the South.
The Orlando convention gave Wolfe more than a president.
Southern Baptist churches govern themselves; what binds them is the annual meeting, where congregations send voting delegates, the denomination calls them messengers, and where amending the SBC constitution requires a two-thirds vote in two consecutive years. Proposed amendments are also supposed to spend a year under executive committee review before messengers ever see them. On the meeting’s first day, messengers voted to skip that waiting period for a proposal from Al Mohler, president of the denomination’s flagship seminary. His “Truth and Unity” amendment proposes to expel churches that let a woman preach to the assembled congregation, and the next morning, it cleared the first of its two required votes with nearly 75 percent in favor.
In February 2019, the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News counted more than 700 people abused in SBC churches since 1998 and roughly 380 church leaders and volunteers accused of sexual misconduct. At his June 10, 2026, press conference, Rice signaled where the denomination’s abuse reforms are headed. The movement to address abuse, he said, “absolutely was weaponized, just like the Me Too movement in the secular culture.” Christa Brown, a survivor of abuse by an SBC pastor and a longtime advocate for reform, told the AP that if anyone politicized the issue, it was the people fighting over SBC power.
The Center for Baptist Leadership titled its post-convention podcast recap “SBC Reformers Just Scored Their Biggest Win in Decades” and walked listeners through how the show had mobilized messengers to Orlando. Baptist News Global counted Rice as the first reform candidate to defeat an institutional candidate for the presidency in 35 years.
The Title He Sells
Wolfe grew up lower-middle-class outside Charlotte, North Carolina, shopping at Goodwill. By his own account, politics came before faith. He traces his politics to watching his friends’ fathers lose construction work to trade deals and to contractors paying undocumented workers cash under the table — an experience he says “put a fire in my bones.” His 15-year-old brother died in June 2011, and his life collapsed. He was 22 when the pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., shared the gospel with him, Wolfe recounted in a 2024 interview. He was baptized into a congregation at the center of the SBC’s establishment wing. He earned a degree in history from Covenant College and stayed in the capital for a decade, working in three congressional offices. From the Hill, he moved to Heritage Action for America, then to the State Department as a director of legislative affairs, and finally to the Pentagon.
That last title is the one he sells. Conference bios introduce him as “a Senior Official in the Trump Administration.” The job lasted from June 2020 to January 2021, through the election and through January 6.
Instead of cashing in as a lobbyist, Wolfe went to Louisville to finish a master of Divinity at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He already knew the school. Baptist News Global identified him as a former intern to its president, Al Mohler, whose amendment his group would one day whip votes for.
American Reformer takes its theology from the 16th-century Protestant reformer John Calvin and its politics from the hard right. The men behind the venture firm New Founding, a Project 2025 advisory board member, co-founded it. The magazine made Wolfe a fellow, and by September 2022, he was speaking at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) in Miami, where the transnational far right gathers. Three years later, he was back on the NatCon stage, in Washington this time, to lecture on “Recovering the Evangelical Political Voice.” To make America great again, he told the room, “We’re going to have to make it Christian again.” The talk was a call for “a Protestant Christian political Manhattan Project,” complete with a joke about rounding up Protestant pastors, putting them “in camps” for reeducation.
“A Sound Christian Nationalism”
Russell Vought was running the Center for Renewing America on January 25, 2023, when he tweeted that he was “proud to work with @William_E_Wolfe on scoping out a sound Christian Nationalism.” Vought now directs the federal budget.
Three months after Vought’s tweet, Wolfe made an appearance on Christian nationalist Joel Webbon’s podcast for an episode recorded April 19, 2023. He had traded complementarianism, the mainstream evangelical teaching that assigns men and women distinct roles, for “biblical patriarchy,” he said. White guilt, he argued, drove the failures of evangelical leaders. His sign-off urged Baptists to “beat your plowshare into a sword” and join him on the front lines.
The 2023 Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel, which Wolfe drafted with Webbon and a third author, binds every nation, in every age, to the moral principle of each of the Ten Commandments. In October 2023, he went on the show of Stew Peters, a white supremacist who has urged the execution of Democratic officials, and told the audience that Christian nationalists in office must save America from “globo-homo nationalism.” That December, Wolfe posted part of the agenda and thought better of it; The New Republic preserved the deleted thread: end no-fault divorce, gestational surrogacy, and sex education in schools. Christian nationalism is “inevitable,” he argued, and young men disaffected by the secular order find the label appealing: “I want to work with those young men.”
Pulpits Money Can’t Rent
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) holds roughly 47,000 congregations by veteran Nashville investigative reporter Phil Williams’s count, plus six seminaries, two mission boards, the Lifeway publishing house, and a policy office in Washington. In Orlando, messengers approved a $186 million budget to run it all, even as the denomination has shed 3.6 million members over two decades, down to 12.3 million.
The SBC’s right turn did not start with Wolfe. Dallas hosted the 1985 showdown that sealed the conservative takeover of the convention and drove out its moderates. Decades later, Russell Moore ran the denomination’s policy office in Washington, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), where he refused to endorse Trump and pressed the denomination to face its sexual abuse crisis. After years of fighting SBC leaders over Trump and over immigration, Moore quit on May 18, 2021.
Twenty-one months after he left, on February 21, 2023, the Executive Committee expelled Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, the SBC’s second-largest congregation, for naming women pastors. Rick Warren, who founded Saddleback and wrote The Purpose Driven Life, flew to New Orleans that June and asked the messengers to let his church back in. They voted 88 percent to keep it out. Hours later, the same messengers gave first-round approval to a constitutional amendment barring women from any pastoral title. The votes were not there in Indianapolis in 2024 or in Dallas in 2025. Al Mohler, the seminary president Wolfe once interned for, rewrote the ban for Orlando. His version reaches past the title to the act: a woman preaching.
At that same 2025 Dallas meeting, a resolution went to the floor demanding the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, and calling for civil laws that “reflect the moral order revealed in Scripture and nature.” Nobody rose to argue. The SBC had condemned the ruling since it was issued in 2015, without ever asking the court to reverse it. The Southern Seminary professor who chaired the resolutions committee told reporters he was “clear-eyed about the difficulties” and has argued elsewhere that Christians are “called to play the long game.” Wolfe wasn’t playing anything that patient. Same-sex marriage, he said on a Liberty podcast that same month, “is fundamentally an impossibility. It doesn’t exist.” When SBC leaders drafted resolutions for Orlando warning against ethnonationalism and antisemitism on the dissident right, Wolfe grumbled that “The Ghost of Russell Moore stalks many of the SBC resolutions this year.”
A Clock, Not a Cudgel
Wolfe spent December 2023 calling the denomination’s most famous woman Bible teacher “an ungodly, even demonic, influence on the SBC.” He opened the Center for Baptist Leadership (CBL) — a pressure group with no official role in the SBC — three months later, on March 8, 2024, and the group announced its diagnosis on social media: “leaders in the SBC allowed CRT [Critical race theory], DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], and feminism to infiltrate our seminaries, our entities, and our churches.” The CBL’s first published piece urged Southern Baptists to elect leaders who would say that the claim of systemic abuse in the SBC “is a lie.” The “lie” was that February 2019 investigation. Wolfe describes the CBL as a subset of American Reformer’s larger project of Protestant renewal — “kind of like a House Freedom Caucus for the Southern Baptist Convention” — and his stump line is that the SBC has “less financial transparency than Planned Parenthood.”
The CBL’s main target was the ERLC. The commission had angered the hard right by opposing criminal penalties for women who seek abortions and by defending immigrants. Four months after the CBL launched, the chair of the ERLC’s board announced that the commission’s president, Brent Leatherwood, had been fired. The rest of the board overruled him, and the chair resigned instead. Leatherwood kept the job for another year. Willy Rice stood up at the Dallas meeting on June 10, 2025 — 40 years after the takeover fight in the same city — and moved to abolish the agency. Wolfe posted the talking point within hours: the vote “is not a cudgel, it’s a clock.”
On June 11, nearly 43 percent of messengers voted to abolish the commission. Any pastor who lost the confidence of 40 percent of his congregation “would resign the next day,” Wolfe said afterward. Leatherwood resigned on July 31, 2025, seven weeks later, the third ERLC president in a row to leave under fire. Wolfe’s CBL issued a statement the same day: Leatherwood “was not the right Baptist for this job.” On April 13, 2026, the trustees installed a new president, the change of leadership that the CBL had demanded in writing. The clock Wolfe set ran out on schedule.
The Iron Fist
Wolfe’s co-authors on the Statement on Christian Nationalism have records of their own. Joel Webbon wants a “Christian Nationalist Caesar” to rule the United States with an iron fist, Constitution be damned. The third author, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, sits on the CBL’s advisory board and files bills to criminalize abortion as homicide. CBL’s roster includes a sitting ERLC trustee who was also strategizing for the group trying to kill it.
In June 2025, on a Liberty podcast episode billed as “America Was Made BY Christians FOR Christians,” Wolfe read the founders’ promise to “our posterity” as a bloodline. “When the founders of America wrote for our posterity, they did not mean millions of Indian immigrants. They did not mean millions of Muslim immigrants to America or millions of South American immigrants. Again, no offense, they have their own countries.”
At a Valentine’s Day gathering in 2026, Wolfe told a story about being “the only person in line speaking English” at a North Carolina DMV, and drew the conclusion himself: millions must be deported so his sons will not grow up as minorities. Right Wing Watch circulated the clip in March. Wolfe stood by the remarks (“I am actually not sorry”), called the group demons, then denied saying what the video showed him saying.
Southern Baptist messengers have gone the other way. In New Orleans in 2023, they affirmed the “inherent dignity and value” of immigrants regardless of legal status and asked the government to open legal pathways to permanent status. In 2011 and in 2018, they had called nativism inconsistent with the Gospel.
The Greene Tavern, an online talk show, comes out of the Nathanael Greene Society, the North Carolina chapter of the Old Glory Club, a nationwide network of men-only far-right clubs whose members, a 2025 Guardian investigation found, include “prominent antisemitic influencers.” One of its hosts posts under the name Kaiser von Lohengramm. On April 6, 2026, he answered a Phil Williams article titled “In Far Right’s Growing Remigration Talk, Echoes of KKK America.” “Yes, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not,” he posted over a video of an anime figure in the white robe and hood of the Klan, set to an anthem urging men to “go with the Ku Klux Klan.”
Days later, Wolfe joined the show. Rice “would very much be our guy,” he told the panel, and electing him was “really my main focus” in the run-up to Orlando. The campaign, he said, was transferable: for anyone “in another denomination that’s fighting with a leftist … what we’re doing is showing that you can win. You bring political grassroots organizing and activism and apply it to these denominational fights.” He gave the same advice about the Republican Party: show up at your local county GOP meetings with three or four friends, and “try to take these things over. I don’t mean it in a hostile sense.”
On air, Wolfe dismissed the Klan comparison as “completely laughable” and described the people who make such charges as “morally reprehensible troglodytes.” He called for “mass deportations, denaturalizations, and remigration” — “not out of hate for anybody,” he said, but “out of love for the American people.”
Messengers at the SBC’s 150th-anniversary meeting in Atlanta in 1995 repudiated “historic acts of evil such as slavery,” which the resolution tied to the convention’s 1845 founding, and resolved to “genuinely repent of racism of which we have been guilty.”
Laying Hands
In February 2025, Wolfe told a podcast that Trump was filling the government “with people who are our guys” and that the second term was “shock and awe.” Paula White-Cain runs Trump’s Faith Office, and on March 19, 2025, she gathered a group of religious-right leaders in the White House to pray over the president. Wolfe stood in the room with David Barton and laid hands on Trump. Barton’s WallBuilders operation supplies the movement’s version of American history. After the meeting, Wolfe posted a video in which he marveled at his access and explained that under a Harris administration, Christians like himself would have been shipped “to the gulags.” Three weeks later, on April 7, he described on a podcast what he had actually done with that access: urged the administration to accelerate deportations, because Southern Baptists and Christians “want to see mass deportations,” and the evangelical organizations objecting to Trump’s immigration crackdown were “astroturf.”
Per procedure, in June 2027, the convention meets again in Indianapolis. Mohler’s amendment comes back with it for its second and final vote, and the abuse reforms fall under Rice’s gavel. Wolfe will be there the way he was in Orlando: off the ballot, working the floor. At NatCon in Washington last September, he reminded the room that America “was essentially 98 percent Protestant at its founding.” “You’re very welcome here,” he said. “We’re glad to have you, but it is ours, and we would like at least some of it back.”
In His Own Words
“I want a Christian nation if only 5% of our population is Christians and somehow we’re the ones who control the reins of power and we pass good and just laws that will benefit the 95% of the population who aren’t converted. I still want that. That’s what I want.”
— April 19, 2023: his terms, offered on Joel Webbon’s podcast between calls to purge “loser theology.”
“If we have ever lived in a point in time in American history since then that we could argue that now is the time to arms again, I think we are getting close.”
— October 21, 2023: his warning at a “Jesus and Politics” conference, delivered while quoting a 1758 militia sermon.
“I don’t care how much they scream. I don’t care how much they cry.”
— January 2026: his defense of ICE deportation raids, given on a Liberty University show.
“I want my children to grow up in a country where they’re not minorities.”
— February 14, 2026: his case for mass deportations, made to a room of allies.
“I am going to enforce my morality on you, inasmuch as our morality is God’s morality.”
— March 14, 2026: his sermon at a West Virginia church, preached three months before his candidate won the SBC presidency.
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- “You’ve got to ask yourself what in the name of sweet holy hell is going on here?”
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- A new lawsuit filed in Rowan Circuit Court accuses former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis of transferring inherited property to family members to avoid paying a civil rights judgment to David Ermold and David Moore, the same-sex couple she refused to issue a marriage license to in 2015.
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- Lawyers for David Hearn, the former Olympian who was arrested and accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, filed a motion Monday citing key testimony they say supports dismissing their client’s case — from a witness for the prosecution.
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- Jim Garlow thanks God for President Donald Trump: "We have been profoundly blessed, as the people of God."
- Joshua Haymes declares that there will be "no more drag shows, no more Pride parades": "We are done with it. We are going to put an end to the public display of this filth and we're going to do it because Christ is king. We will see it done."
- William Wolfe says that Jesus "would support ICE and mass deportations" and proclaims that "if we want to save Western Civilization, we must become immune to the tears of liberal women."
- Joel Webbon claims that a college student recently informed him that all the rich, popular, smart frat bros love Nick Fuentes.
- Finally, Trump announced that his administration will be hosting a day of prayer, praise and thanksgiving on the National Mall in May during which participants will be "solemnly rededicating our country as One Nation under God."
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- Glenn Beck insists that he did not design his AI George Washington to sound like Glenn Beck: "I just sound a little like the Founding Fathers."
- Last week, David Barton testified before the Trump administration's Religious Liberty Commission.
- Jackson Lahmeyer declares that "the West needs another Crusade against Islam otherwise WE ARE FINISHED."
- Joel Webbon wants to see Mike Huckabee deported due to his support for Israel.
- James Fishback stands by his support for Nick Fuentes and his followers: "I want to clarify and apologize for absolutely nothing."
- Finally, William Wolfe has no interest in seeing Democrats represented in Congress: "I want them disenfranchised as we usher in a multi-decade Iron Reign of the Right."
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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 ButlerNovember+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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- Heidi St. John is devastated by the Democrat's sweeping wins in the off-year elections: "This is the fruit of our broken education system, and a nation that has rejected the roots of its Christian faith. Our founding fathers are turning in their graves!"
- Shane Vaughn is aghast that Zohran Mamdani was electedmayor of New York City: "Make no mistake, folks — this is not politics. This is prophecy. This is a harbinger — the torch of Liberty trembling in her own hand."
- Rick Joyner warns that "America is in even more jeopardy than almost anyone thought. The Marxist 100 Year Plan has been at work for 95 years now with relentless devotion. They think they have won, and the next 5 years will likely determine if America remains free, or succumbs to the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known, or fight to eliminate the Marxist threat to our land."
- William Wolfe relentlessly blames the election results on immigration, urging people to read the anti-immigrant novel "The Camp of the Saints."
- Finally, Joel Webbon blames the election results on allowing women to vote: "You can save your country or you can allow women to vote. But you cannot do both."
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In the years before he was murdered, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had transitioned the group away from its libertarian leanings and toward a dominionist Christian nationalist ideology and agenda. It appears that the group’s current leadership is continuing that shift.
TPUSA Faith, the group’s religious organizing arm, is hosting a “pastor roundtable” featuring two Christian nationalists, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers and author and former Trump administration official William Wolfe, according to a flyer Deevers posted on his X account Wednesday. Both men have connections to extreme Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, who has been in the news recently, both for his claim that women should not have the right to vote and for his efforts to strengthen his influence within the Trump administration.
Right Wing Watch noted recently, “Few elected officials can match Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers in their desire to see the United States turned into a Christian nationalist theocracy.” Deevers calls the separation of church and state “blasphemous.” In a sermon at Wilson’s Idaho church last year, Deevers declared that it is the duty of civil leaders to “submit” to the authority of Christ. He has called on Christian men to “make offensive war on the gates of hell” and “dominionize” the world.
Wolfe is an ardent Christian nationalist who declared in 2023 that "we are getting close" to a point where Christians will have to "heed the call to arms." Wolfe has charged that Democrats are Marxists and “violent revolutionaries” and claimed that “the Democrats hate God, they hate family, they hate marriage, they hate children, they hate our nation." At the far-right National Conservatism conference this year, he called for a “Protestant Christian Political Manhattan Project.”
Wolfe was a visiting fellow at OMB Director Russ Vought’s Center for Renewing America, which identified Christian nationalism as a priority for the Trump administration. Early in Trump’s second term, he celebrated that the administration was being filled with “people who are our guys.” After meeting with Trump in March, Wolfe declared, “This is our land and we've had it really sort of violently taken away from us by radical leftists who are fundamentally steeped in a Marxist worldview that is anti-God, anti-human, anti-family, all those things.” He has been a cheerleader for the Trump regime’s mass deportation agenda.
Deevers and Wolfe, along with theobro Joel Webbon, were among the drafters of a 2023 document called The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel. It declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” The statement affirms that “the Christian Nationalist project entails a national recognition of essential Christian orthodoxy” and supports laws against “public blasphemy.”
The TPUSA roundtable is being co-sponsored by the Center for Baptist Leadership and its parent organization American Reformer. The Center for Baptist Leadership, founded by Wolfe, thinks the Southern Baptist Convention is too liberal. The American Reformer is a group backed by venture capitalists that wants to bring the U.S. back into alignment with what they see as its explicitly Protestant Christian heritage. It’s connected to networks of theobros associated in various ways with Wilson; its advisory board is rich with people connected to the hard-right Claremont Institute.
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10/01/2025
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- Ché Ahn says that he is running for governor to be "a father for California."
- Tony Perkins claims that "corporate America has blood on its hands" for having donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Michele Bachmann says that what she loves about President Donald Trump is that "he puts his Superman suit on ... and he says, 'I'm going to stand up for the American people.'"
- It's fitting that Rob McCoy's tribute to Charlie Kirk was filled with Christian nationalist myths and disinformation.
- Finally, William Wolfe declares that "Ta-Nehisi Coates might be the most high-profile black supremacist in the country": "He’s been given handout after handout for the mere combination of mediocrity plus his skin color. The only reason he has a platform is because he’s a DEI 'intellectual' for the Left."
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Joel Webbon, a racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic Christian nationalist Texas-based pastor, used a recent episode of his Right Response Ministries podcast to call for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, to be public executed on national television after he is found guilty.
Webbon asserted that if a capital crime is committed against a "public national figure," then the perpetrator should be subject to a capital punishment that likewise takes place on national public level.
"It needs to be proportional justice; it needs to be fair justice—there's a fair trial; it needs to be swift justice—not delayed; and if it's a public national crime, like the case of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, then that justice should be carried out publicly," Webbon proclaimed. "What do I mean? I'll speak in no uncertain terms: I believe that Charlie Kirk's murderer should be put to death and that his execution should be publicly, nationally televised."
"I do think that execution, that capital punishment for a capital crime with a national level crime, that justice should be carried out nationally and publicly where everyone is able to witness it if they so desire," he added.
"It's good for the public to see if they so desire," Webbon asserted. "But more importantly, arguably, it is good for others who have murderous hearts, who may be thinking of carrying out wicked deeds against conservatives, against Christians, it's good for them to see."
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This view is unsurprising given that Webbon is an unapologetic fascist who thinks that this country must be governed by a Christian dictator that will “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”
Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault; and the government used to "absolutely terrorize" his political enemies.
In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who declared his desire to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."
In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like the “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that featured a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.
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Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers is a far-right pastor and unabashed Christian nationalist who wants to abolish abortion, ban no-fault divorce, outlaw pornography, and literally see this nation taken back to the 1600s.
Earlier this month, Deevers joined fellow Christian nationalist and former Trump administration official William Wolfe on the latter's Center for Baptist Leadership podcast to discuss the presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
During the discussion, Deevers asserted that Harris would never support any restrictions or limitations on reproductive choice because those who vote for her are "wicked, murderous people" who are "demon possessed."
"They have rabid, wicked, murderous people who are voting for them and who are the loudest supporters that if they claimed even 30 weeks, 24 weeks, 15 weeks, they are going to be vicious against them and the demons are going to come out," Deevers said. "I'm not saying that those people are demons; I'm saying that a lot of them are demon possessed."
"The demons who want their child sacrifice, who want this land being covered in blood ... that's what the demons want," Deevers declared. "Now, whether they theologically understand that, the demons know it that are advising them," Deevers declared.
In 2023, Deevers and Wolfe were among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel," which declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is also a colleague of Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought, whose Center for Renewing America hopes to infuse Christian nationalism throughout a second Trump administration.
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Last week, various Christian nationalists and abortion abolitionists gathered for a discussion on Twitter about how they should respond to former President Donald Trump’s recent statements about abortion, specifically his criticism that a recent court ruling in Arizona went too far and his claim that he would not sign a national abortion ban if he’s reelected to the White House.
Among the participants was former Trump administration official and radical Christian nationalist William Wolfe, who made a two-fold argument in defense of voting for Trump.
The first part of Wolfe’s argument was that the Biden administration is “possessed by legion of demons, Marxist and radicals” who hate Christians, the preborn, children and even “humanity itself.”
“What we’re up against is one of the most lawless, hostile, and aggressive anti-Christian regimes that we have ever seen in our country to this point,” Wolfe said. “The Biden administration is ruthless. They will utilize the crushing and deadly power of the federal government, the national security apparatus, and the deep state to destroy you and your family without remorse. If you’re an outspoken, conservative Christian in this country, and you’re not walking around looking over your shoulder wondering when the FBI might be coming to roll you up for your group chats or for your memes or for your advocacy for Christian values and causes in the country, you need to be.”
“I think [Biden] poses a civilizational threat to our country and the world,” Wolfe added. “He’s staffed his administration with trannies and deviants of every kind, each worse than the next, and so I think the greatest threat to our lives and our livelihood is the regime.”
Later in the discussion, Wolfe made the case Trump is just “cloaking” his radical intentions and will, if reelected, fill his administration with hardliners who will help him “govern in a more extreme position.”
“I actually think there’s wisdom in cloaking some of your power levels and maybe some of the things that you’re trying to do, and then once you secure power, and you have it, you govern in a more extreme position,” Wolfe said. “I think Trump is one of the first Republican candidates I’ve ever seen in my lifetime who has done that.”
“I am confident with the people that I see lining up to be with Trump in a second term that regardless of what the rhetoric looks like during this campaign season, that he would actually govern in a more conservative and more aggressive fashion in the White House,” he concluded. “That’s something that I think we need to be comfortable with and maybe we should use; maybe even some other conservative Republicans out there who want to run for office and gain power and use it to do radical scary conservative things should consider doing.”
Given that Wolfe is among those who are already openly plotting to infuse Christian nationalism into a second Trump administration, his contention that Trump will govern in a far “more aggressive fashion” if he’s returned to the White House than his current campaign rhetoric suggests ought to be taken seriously.
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Former Trump administration official and unabashed Christian nationalist William Wolfe spoke at a "Jesus And Politics" conference earlier this month, where he railed against "cowardly" Christians and warned that "we are getting close" to a point where Christians will have to "heed the call to arms."
Wolfe framed his remarks by quoting extensively from a 1758 sermon delivered by Virginia evangelist Samuel Davies to a militia during the French And Indian War.
"Cowardly leadership is a curse upon God's people," Wolfe declared. "And the bad news is we are led by cowards."
Wolfe then read a portion from the 1758 sermon in which Davies declared that in a time of war when Christians are "in danger by the loss of our religion," then "even the God of Peace proclaims by His providence, 'To arms!' Then the sword is, as it were, consecrated to God; and the art of war becomes a part of our religion."
"If we have ever lived in a point in time in American history since then that we could argue that now is the time to arms again, I think we are getting close," Wolfe then proclaimed. "Even though as Christians we seek peace, when the enemy is pressed upon us, if we fail to heed the call to arms, then we are acting as cowards."
"To be ruled by cowards in a time of war is a curse, because God hates cowards," Wolfe concluded.
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Politico reported that Vought has close ties to Christian nationalist William Wolfe, a former Trump official advocating for policies such as overturning same- marriage and restricting access to ...
MAGA faithful draft plans for America's Christian nationalist future
Feb 21, 2024Despite the lack of specifics, Vought and his allies — including fellow former Trump administration official William Wolfe — have "long used interpretations of Christian doctrine as the basis ...
The Terrifying Christian Nationalist Crusade to Conquer America
Mar 13, 2024William Wolfe, one of Vaught's CRA associates—and a former State and Defense Department official from Trump's administration—has worked on drafting a broader mission statement for the ...
Yet another group forms to turn the SBC in a more conservative ...
William Wolfe. Wolfe is a former Trump administration staffer and former intern to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler. He frequently uses his X account to post inflammatory statements of white supremacy, Christian supremacy and male supremacy.
Politico is stunned to discover social conservatism
Feb 20, 2024Take, for example, William Wolfe, a Southern Baptist who worked in the Trump administration at the Pentagon and at the State Department and who has worked with Vought and CRA in the past. As an ...
Trump Allies Hope to Spread Christian Nationalism in the White House ...
Feb 20, 2024While Vought has resisted revealing many of his political aspirations, the same cannot be said of his Christian nationalist ally William Wolfe, another former Trump administration official. In a ...
Episode 57: William Wolfe: Should Christians Vote for Trump?
Mar 15, 2024William Wolfe, Executive Director of Center for Baptist Leadership and former Trump administration appointee joins Zach and Dennis to provide his affirmative answer to these questions in this first episode of a two-part series on the issue of whether Christians should vote for Trump. Connect With Us
William Wolfe - The American Conservative
May 24, 2023William Wolfe is a Southern Baptist and a former senior official in the Trump administration, where he served as a director at the Department of State and then as a deputy assistant secretary of ...
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