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AnrothElf

(593 posts)
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 01:20 PM Mar 9

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A 'National Divorce'

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 it’s 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.”

It’s an uncanny mimicry of the clandestine engine that, in the right-wing’s 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 group’s radical values.

The men TPM has identified as behind this group — and they are all men — have a few things in common. They’re 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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Read the rest at TPM: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-a-secret-society-of-prominent-right-wing-christian-men-prepping-for-a-national-divorce

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Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A 'National Divorce' (Original Post) AnrothElf Mar 9 OP
Just another group of Nazis louis-t Mar 9 #1
Exactly!!! RKP5637 Mar 9 #2
They're no different... GiqueCee Mar 9 #11
Is this Jilly_in_VA Mar 9 #3
A bunch of Youngkin clones. Nt spooky3 Mar 9 #4
It seems that... 2naSalit Mar 9 #5
And, as Napoleon Bonaparte pointed out, GoCubsGo Mar 9 #7
Exactly. 2naSalit Mar 9 #9
simply put bikeboy Mar 9 #6
"secure a future for Christian families."... with no leadership positions for women. keithbvadu2 Mar 9 #8
This shitbird is a walking disease... GiqueCee Mar 9 #13
Is this how "The Handmaid's Tale" becomes a reality? Nictuku Mar 9 #10
Somehow I'm having a tough time worrying much about clowns like this. Gidney N Cloyd Mar 9 #12
Nothing is stopping these agents of malice NanaCat Mar 9 #14

2naSalit

(86,779 posts)
5. It seems that...
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 01:59 PM
Mar 9

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)
7. And, as Napoleon Bonaparte pointed out,
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 02:10 PM
Mar 9

it's what keeps poor people from murdering the rich people. Blessed be the poor, and all...

keithbvadu2

(36,906 posts)
8. "secure a future for Christian families."... with no leadership positions for women.
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 02:25 PM
Mar 9

This one is close to power.

He was a personal guest at Trump's Thanksgiving table.


GiqueCee

(636 posts)
13. This shitbird is a walking disease...
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 05:56 PM
Mar 9

... 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...

NanaCat

(1,251 posts)
14. Nothing is stopping these agents of malice
Sat Mar 9, 2024, 06:46 PM
Mar 9

From emigrating to another country, like, oh, Russia. No need to rip apart America for their petty and selfish whims.

Bye, Felicia.

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