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By Josh Kovensky
A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country is on a crusade: to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change in the United States, potentially via a national divorce.
It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but its real. The group is called the Society for American Civic Renewal (the acronym is pronounced sacker by its members). It is open to new recruits, provided you meet a few criteria: you are male, a trinitarian Christian, heterosexual, an un-hyphenated American, and can answer questions about Trump, the Republican Party, and Christian Nationalism in the right way. One chapter leader wrote to a prospective member that the group aimed to secure a future for Christian families.
Its an uncanny mimicry of the clandestine engine that, in the right-wings furthest imaginings, has driven recent social changes and left them feeling isolated and under siege: a shadowy network occupying the commanding heights of business, politics, and culture, open only to a select, elite few, committed to reshaping the United States to align it with the groups radical values.
The men TPM has identified as behind this group and they are all men have a few things in common. Theyre all a certain kind of devout Christian traditionalist. They are white. They have means, financial and social, and are engaged in politics.
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louis-t
(23,297 posts)We beat you assholes once, we'll beat you again.
GiqueCee
(636 posts)... than the Nazis; they just have better tailors.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,995 posts)simply a Protestant Opus Dei which has equally political overtones?
spooky3
(34,476 posts)2naSalit
(86,779 posts)What organized religion is really all about is clandestine practices to control the lives of the rest of the population using fear and guilt to appeal to their base emotions.
GoCubsGo
(32,093 posts)it's what keeps poor people from murdering the rich people. Blessed be the poor, and all...
bikeboy
(126 posts)The idea a wealthy white man is oppressed is fucking ridiculous and sick in the head...
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)GiqueCee
(636 posts)... for which there is only one certain cure. But, dammit, it's a felony.
What kind of people actually listen to this asshole? Incels wrapped in crusty sheets in their mothers' basements? Jesus...
Nictuku
(3,617 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)NanaCat
(1,251 posts)From emigrating to another country, like, oh, Russia. No need to rip apart America for their petty and selfish whims.
Bye, Felicia.