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.

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.

“Some Folks Need Killing!” Mark Robinson, David Lane, and the CNP’s American Renewal Project

“Some Folks Need Killing!” So declared North Car­oli­na Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor Mark Robin­son on June 30. At a church. With the full endorse­ment of the church’s pas­tor, Rev­erend Cameron McGill, who explained how Robin­son only meant the peo­ple ‘try­ing to kill us’ should be killed. Two days lat­er, Her­itage Foun­da­tion Pres­i­dent and Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts made his now infa­mous “Sec­ond Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion” speech, warn­ing that the rev­o­lu­tion would remain blood­less “if the left allows it”. Days lat­er, Don­ald Trump laugh­ably dis­avowed know­ing any­thing about Project 2025. And while Robert­s’s com­ments have received ample atten­tion, Robin­son’s “Some Folks Need Killing!” com­ments have remained an under-explored top­ic. Because as we’re going to see, Mark Robin­son has become quite a celebri­ty on the far right. With one very notable fan base: The Amer­i­can Renew­al Project ded­i­cat­ed to recruit­ing con­ser­v­a­tive pas­tor to run for office and the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) fig­ures behind it. Not only is Robin­son the star of Amer­i­can Renew­al Project events, but it turns out Rev­erend McGill is a recruiter for the group too. That project, formed in 2005 by polit­i­cal activist David Lane but with roots going all the way back to the for­ma­tion of the CNP in 1981, is what we’re going to explore in this post. Because as dis­turb­ing as Robin­son’s “Some Folks Need Killings” com­ments may have been out of of con­text, they are a lot more dis­turb­ing when placed in con­text. A Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist domin­ion­ist con­text that warns of plans for a lot more than just ‘some’ killing.