The CNP’s Satanic Fellow Travelers: the Synergistic Rise of Accelerationist Satanic Terror and the neo-Confederate Theocrats

Nazi ter­ror­ism isn’t like it was a gen­er­a­tion ago. It’s worse. Accel­er­a­tionism is the theme of the day and has been for years. But that was­n’t always the case. James Mason’s Siege could have fall­en into obscu­ri­ty. Instead, it has become the tem­plate for the next gen­er­a­tion of online Nazi extrem­ists, with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) Satan­ic strains of accel­er­a­tionism becom­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar. Where­as Chris­t­ian Iden­ti­ty white suprema­cy was the expect­ed form of Nazi ter­ror in the 1990s from groups like the Aryan Nations, today an attack is far more like­ly to be car­ried about by a fol­low­er of Atom­waf­fen who has been indoc­tri­nat­ed with Satan­ic Nazi tracts like Iron Gates or Blue­bird that serve of con­tem­po­rary analogs to the Turn­er Diaries or Ser­pen­t’s Walk. That did­n’t just hap­pen. It turns out ‘main­stream’ white nation­al­ists set out to pop­u­lar­ize of accel­er­a­tionism over two decades ago, repub­lish­ing Siege and focus­ing atten­tion on fig­ures like O9A leader David Myatt and Hin­du-fas­cist Sav­i­t­ra Devi. And then, in 2003, Joshua Caleb Sut­ter, a young leader in the Aryan Nations, was sent to prison on charges relat­ed to a plot to attack abor­tion clin­ics and polit­i­cal oppo­nents. He emerged from prison a year lat­er as an under­cov­er FBI infor­mant who would spend the next two decades as the lead­ing pub­lish­er of accel­er­a­tionist Satan­ic Nazism. A form of Nazi Satanism that cel­e­brates rit­u­al­is­tic child abuse and has become inter­twine with some of the most sadis­tic and depraved cor­ners of the inter­net. Where chil­dren are lured into extrem­ists com­mu­ni­ties with gory and child pornog­ra­phy con­tent designed to desen­si­tize and then coerced into com­mit­ting acts of abuse and ter­ror them­selves. As Sut­ter once char­ac­ter­ized the “Tem­pel ov Blood” O9A off­shoot he runs, “this Tem­pel is in many ways a social pro­gram­ming exper­i­ment.” Nazi ter­ror­ism real­ly has some­how become more depraved than it already was.

At the same time, neo-Con­fed­er­ate Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist move­ments deeply aligned with the pow­er­ful Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) haven’t just grown. They’ve been thriv­ing and increas­ing­ly their reach. One such neo-Con­fed­er­ate preach­ers, Doug Wil­son, co-authored a book in 1996 argu­ing the Con­fed­er­ate South was the bib­li­cal ide­al soci­ety that need­ed to be recre­at­ed. His co-author, Steven J. Wilkins, was a co-founder of the League of South (LOS). Both has prominet CNP mem­bers RJ Rush­doony and Gary North as close theo­crat­ic col­lab­o­ra­tors. Wilkins went on to exe­cute a LOS plot takeover church­es in the South US that were deemed to be ripe recruit­ment pools for their neo-Con­fed­er­ate ide­ol­o­gy. Wil­son spent the fol­low­ing decades build­ing an increas­ing­ly influ­en­tial pro-Con­fed­er­ate net­work of church­es that now includes cur­rent Sec­re­tary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a mem­ber. It turns out Wil­son has also been involved with the plan­ning behind Project 2025 and is now plan­ning on open­ing a new con­gre­ga­tion in Wash­ing­ton DC which will serve as a hub for his grow­ing reli­gious empire.

At the same time Chris­t­ian Iden­ti­ty white pow­er ter­ror has large­ly been sup­plant­ed by nihilis­tic accel­er­a­tionism in the online era (thanks, in part, to the decades-long efforts of a paid FBI infor­mant), orga­nized neo-Con­fed­er­ate Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism has grown so pow­er­ful it is now play­ing a role in the CNP’s ongo­ing “Sec­ond Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion”. That’s the incred­i­ble sto­ry we’re going to be exam­in­ing in this post.

Oligarchs for Austerity and the CNP Have a Big New Scheme: Suing their Way to a New Constitution

Did you hear? Pres­i­dent Trump is going to be run­ning for a third term in office. And he’s not jok­ing. Who knows how seri­ous he is, but as we’re going to see, the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of third pres­i­den­tial term may not be as set in stone as many sus­pect. Along with the rest of the US Con­sti­tu­tion. A con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion could be just around the cor­ner. Just a law­suit away. And we can thank the DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by and their fel­low trav­el­ers at the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) and the Amer­i­can Leg­isla­tive Exchange Com­mit­tee (ALEC) for this loom­ing threat. The same aus­ter­i­ty lob­by that has spent years try­ing to roll back Oba­macare, evis­cer­ate Medicare and Med­ic­aid through block-grants, and gen­er­al­ly erode what’s left of the US’s social safe­ty-nets as more and more Amer­i­cans are forced to take any work avail­able just to qual­i­fy for increas­ing­ly mea­ger gov­ern­ment assis­tance. That aus­ter­i­ty lob­by. It’s back with a big sneaky plan: a law­suit pur­port­ing to prove that the 34 state thresh­old for an Arti­cle V con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion has already been met. David M. Walk­er — the for­mer US Comp­trol­ler for both Bill Clin­ton and George W. Bush — is lead­ing the legal effort, with legal sup­port from NRA lawyer (and CNP mem­ber) Charles “Chuck” Coop­er. If the law­suit suc­ceeds, get ready for a new con­sti­tu­tion writ­ten by and for the oli­garchy.

But this sto­ry isn’t just about this new law­suit. It’s also about how the DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by has been work­ing with CNP to push these con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion ambi­tions since at least 2013, which is right around the same time it become clear that the last major round of DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by­ing had failed in achiev­ing a “grand bar­gain” of slashed enti­tle­ments. A round of lob­by­ing that began in earnest as the 2008 finan­cial cri­sis was still play­ing out with David Walk­er — then Pres­i­dent and CEO of the new­ly formed aus­ter­i­ty-cen­tric Pete Peter­son Foun­da­tion — tak­ing on a lead role as pub­lic aus­ter­i­ty advo­cate. The Great Reces­sion was a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for a “grand bar­gain”. And it almost worked. But did­n’t work, at least not entire­ly, and it was­n’t long after that fail­ure became clear that we saw the aus­ter­i­ty lob­by and the CNP begin hatch­ing far more ambi­tious plans. Plans that just might be about come to fruition. Because as we’re also going to see, if a con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion does hap­pen, the forces behind this plan are the ones who will be run­ning it. The DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by real­ly is just a law­suit away from win­ning every­thing.

Soft Fascism Florida-Style: Ron DeSantis’s War on Amendment 4

A fas­cist to the core. That’s how retired US gen­er­al Mark Mil­ley, who direct­ly served Trump as the chair of joint chiefs of staff, as described in Bob Wood­ward’s upcom­ing book. As Mil­ley put it, “He is the most dan­ger­ous per­son ever. I had sus­pi­cions when I talked to you about his men­tal decline and so forth, but now I real­ize he’s a total fas­cist. He is now the most dan­ger­ous per­son to this coun­try.” And while they may be true, it’s impor­tant to keep in mind that Don­ald Trump is far from the only aspir­ing fas­cist in con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can pol­i­tics. The Sched­ule F/Project 2025 scheme orches­trat­ed by the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy is a group effort, after all. And as we’re going to see, Flori­da Gov­er­nor Ron DeSan­tis has been lay­ing the ground­work for the kind of ‘soft fas­cism’ that we should antic­i­pate a lot more of under a sec­ond Trump pres­i­den­cy. The kind of ‘soft fas­cism’ that is shaped less by Trump’s per­son­al mad­ness and more by the theo­crat­ic ambi­tions of the move­ments that have long ani­mat­ed the Repub­li­can Par­ty. Which brings us to DeSan­tis’s war on Amend­ment 4, a bal­lot ini­tia­tive that would enshrine abor­tion rights in Flori­da’s state con­sti­tu­tion up to the moment of via­bil­i­ty, com­ing months after Flori­da Repub­li­cans put in place a restric­tive new 6 week abor­tion ban. After first try­ing to get Amend­ment 4 thrown off the bal­lot, the DeSan­tis admin­is­tra­tion has pro­ceed­ed to spend tax­pay­er funds on an anti-Amend­ment 4 pub­lic mes­sag­ing cam­paign includes tv and radio ads. An unprece­dent­ed inves­ti­ga­tion into the Amend­ment 4 bal­lot sig­na­tures has also been opened, with police show­ing up at peo­ple’s homes to con­firm they signed the peti­tion. Local elec­tion super­vi­sors are also under sus­pi­cion of ver­i­fy­ing invalid sig­na­tures. And as we’re going to also see, there’s no pos­si­ble way this inves­ti­ga­tion can get the Amend­ment 4 removed from the bal­lot even if it suc­ceed­ed in reveal­ing some fraud. It’s pure intim­i­da­tion. More recent­ly, the Flori­da gov­ern­ment has threat­ened tele­vi­sion sta­tion employ­ees with crim­i­nal charges if they air a pro-Amend­ment 4 ad. Why? Because the state claims the ads — which raise ques­tions about whether or not wom­en’s health is ade­quate­ly pro­tect­ed under the new 6 week abor­tion law — pose a threat to pub­lic health because the new law in no way endan­gers women. Yes, if you run an ad sug­gest­ing the new Flori­da abor­tion law — one of the strictest in the US — could put women at risk, you could be crim­i­nal­ly charged. So if you were won­der­ing how the GOP is plan­ning on han­dling pub­lic dis­con­tent over the unpop­u­lar pol­i­cy that are about to be imposed on the pub­lic at large, look to Flori­da. Ron DeSan­tis is one of the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy’s favorite politi­cians for a rea­son.

The Eyes Over Mike Johnson: the CNP’s Texas Template for God’s Power Grope

Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism isn’t sim­ply on the rise in the Unit­ed States. It’s already at the top, thanks in no small part to the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) and the myr­i­ad of groups oper­at­ing under its theo­crat­ic umbrel­la. The Supreme Court is dom­i­nat­ed by a hard right major­i­ty and there’s even the CNP’s planned mass purges — start­ing with the gov­ern­ment but not end­ing there — under the ‘Sched­ule F’/Project 2025 label. That’s all part of the grim con­text sur­round­ing a series of reports around the new Speak­er of the House, Mike John­son that should raise seri­ous ques­tions about just how much influ­ence the lead­ing Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist hold over new Speak­er of the House. But thanks the House and Supreme Court aren’t the only gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tion under Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism sway. States Repub­li­cans are increas­ing­ly adopt­ing Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist laws, with Texas lead­ing the way under the way under the vision of CNP pseu­do-his­to­ri­an David Bar­ton. It turns out John­son and Bar­ton are long-time allies who share the same vision for the future. A vision in line with the ‘dis­ci­ple­ship’ form of author­i­tar­i­an Chris­tian­i­ty now main­streamed in the CNP-dom­i­nat­ed net­work of 47,000 church­es in the South­ern Bap­tist Con­ven­tion (SBC). Which also hap­pens to be a denom­i­na­tion grap­pling with a sex abuse mega-scan­dal haunt­ing­ly rem­i­nis­cent of the Catholic Church’s mega-abuse scan­dal. A mega-scan­dal with a num­ber of major CNP fig­ures oper­at­ing as abusers or enablers. It’s that broad­er inter­sec­tion of Mike John­son’s ties to Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism with this grow­ing SBC abuse mega-scan­dal that we’re going to look at in this post.

Oligarchs for Theocracy: Project Blitz, the Council for National Policy, and God’s Insurrection

“One nation under God.” It’s a famil­iar phrase for mod­ern Amer­i­cans. But how about the phrase “One nation under God, and one reli­gion under God”? That was the call recent­ly made by Michael Fly­nn. As we’re going to see, Fly­nn was­n’t just speak­ing for fel­low theocrats when he called for an end to the sep­a­ra­tion of church and state. He was voic­ing the views of some of the most pow­er­ful lob­bies oper­at­ing in DC. Groups like the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) that rep­re­sent the merg­er of cor­po­rate (Koch) and theo­crat­ic inter­ests. A net­work that for all prac­ti­cal pur­pos­es is the Repub­li­can Par­ty’s oli­garch estab­lish­ment, push­ing a theo­crat­ic agen­da with a goal of not just con­fer­ring spe­cial rights for Chris­tians but effec­tive­ly end­ing democ­ra­cy itself. Because as we’re also going to see, just as you can’t sep­a­rate the GOP estab­lish­ment from the theo­crat­ic CNP, you can’t sep­a­rate the GOP’s par­ty-wide push to over­turn the 2020 elec­tion results from the CNP either. The death of rep­re­sen­ta­tive democ­ra­cy in the US is very much a ‘God’-ordained project.