Yeah. File this under, "What a dick!" [The Atlantic]: ROD DREHER THINKS THE ENLIGHTENMENT WAS A MISTAKE

The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages. By Robert F. Worth, Photographs by Erika Nina Suárez, February 13, 2025.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/rod-dreher-religious-conservativism-jd-vance/685732/?gift=HoRfrgrF5SCKopc-hfobxIwm8wnLWZoy3_EIQccJ4Ss

#rodDreher

#RodDreher: "Yeah, Trump, alienate all of Europe for a policy an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose."
https://nitter.net/roddreher/status/2012968180793143545#m

That's in response to
NewsWire: "CBS Poll: 86% of Americans Oppose Military Force to Take Greenland; 70% Oppose Using Federal Funds to Buy It"
https://nitter.net/NewsWire_US/status/2012950249669546474#m

#Greenland really is a wise place for countries to stand up against the Trump White House. Threatening Denmark is just such a dishonourable, foolish, unpopular policy...

#uspol

#Project2025 Is Dead. Long Live Project 2025.

#Trump, #Vance and the #hateful horizons of “#TradFuturism.”

by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz July 31, 2024
Published in #InTheseTimes

Excerpt: "When news came several weeks ago that Trump had chosen Ohio Sen. #JDVance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election, my X (formerly Twitter) feed was abuzz with commentary about the selection. Out of the various comments, criticism and praise heaped upon the Hillbilly Elegy author and onetime ​'#NeverTrumper' was the assessment of #DarrellScott, pastor of a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, church ministry and one of Trump’s former spiritual advisors.

" 'JD Vance is not only the pick for today, but also for the future,' Scott proclaimed. ​'He will be the presumptive nominee for President in 2028, and will keep the #MAGA movement going, retaining Trump as an advisor/​consigleri [sic]. Rubio, Haley, Burgum, Carson, etc wouldn’t.'

"Scott’s emphasis on MAGA’s future vitality caught my eye as a prime example of a phenomenon I call trad futurism, with the Trump campaign’s selection of Vance serving as part of a world-building project aimed at creating a future for the United States that is not founded on the principles of democracy and freedom but rather on #Identitarian politics and the policing of people and bodies that don’t conform to so-called #TraditionalValues.
Trad futurism is a moral project that unites ideologically disparate #RightWing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive democracy.

"What is trad futurism? Trad is shorthand for #traditionalist / #​traditionalism. Recently, there has been broad discussion of far-right groups like ​'trad wives' on TikTok or ​'#RadTrad' young Catholics. Trad futurism is part of that conversation, but it’s not just about a return to the simple life or a Latin Mass. Rather it’s a moral project that unites ideologically disparate right-wing groups to craft a world in opposition to secular progressive #democracy.

"Right-wing writer #RodDreher’s 2017 book #TheBenedictOption, which urged Christians to withdraw from a corrupted world into cloistered purist communities of the faithful, is one type of trad future: small and local. But some trad futurist projects are far more expansive, aimed at creating a ​'#moral' future for America, in which laws and social policies reflect the ​'traditional values' of conservative Christianity. Throughout the United States, various groups of traditionalists are doing their part to build that world.

"#ChristianNationalists position their values as American values. Institutions, including the massive #Heritage Foundation and countless otherconservative lobbying groups, are courting right-wing leaders and crafting manifestos for their ideal vision of the country’s future."

Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/project-2025-trump-vance-traditionalist-republican

#USPol #Gilead #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism

Is this why #RodDreher went all-in with the #Benedictine Option?

#learning #education #institutions #literature #IsaacAsimov #DarkAges #history

'Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents' by Rod Dreher

"Resistance may seem distant or futile, but can be quite simple—rejecting the lie—a potent act of defiance..."

https://booksperience.org/2023/12/23/ltlive-not-by-lies-a-manual-for-christian-dissidentsgt-by-rod-dreher/ #Non-fiction, #USA, #AmericanLiterature, #Religion, #History, #Dystopia, #Politics, #Sociology, #SocialJustice, #CulturalStudies, #Truth, #Lies, #LiveNotByLies, #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn, #Communism, #Totalitarianism, #SoftTotalitarianism, #GulagArchipelago, #RodDreher, #Resistance,

Lol #RodDreher paywalled his denial of most of the #VanityFair piece about his sugar daddy cutting him off.

https://roddreher.substack.com/p/howard-ahmanson-responds-to-vanity

Edit: Seems he depaywalled it since I first tried to read it. Screencap of sugar daddy not-really-a-denial in the replies.

Some takeaways (for me) from the story that Rod Dreher's blog at The American Conservative was funded by one person, Howard Ahmanson Jr., who has pulled the plug on said blog after it got — only now?! — "too weird":

1. Straight right-wing white men who purport to be opinion makers will ALWAYS find someone to fund them, until they become too outrageous to merit funding. There's an endless funding stream for such men.

#RodDreher

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