William Lindsey 
Good commentary today about Trump-Vance's thick ties to theocratic groups in both the white evangelical and white Catholic world. Greg Olear focuses on the powerful, secretive right-wing Catholic cult Opus Dei that wields extraordinary influence at top levels of the U.S. government, through Leonard Leo and justices he has placed on the Supreme Court.
"What is Project 2025 if not a plan to lurch the United States more in line with the Opus Dei way of thinking? After all, the head of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, is, like Leo, a radical Catholic extremist with ties to the prelature."
#OpusDei #Catholic #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #theocracy #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts
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"Read the speeches given by Leonard Leo at Benedictine, or Bill Barr at Notre Dame. Read the quotes from McCloskey, or Kevin Roberts’s forward to Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. One of the themes is the idea that this is a holy war…."
McCloskey was John McCloskey, an Opus Dei priest who functioned as a kingmaker for that group in D.C. for years.
#OpusDei #Catholic #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #theocracy #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #BillBarr #JohnMcCloskey
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And from the right-wing Protestant side — right-wing Catholics and Protestants find common cause in their project of establishing theocracy — Todd Beeton looks at right-wing Catholic Vance's ties to Lance Wallnau and the New Apostolic Reformation:
#JDVance #LanceWallnau #NewApostolicReformation #theocracy
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/jd-vance-wallnau-courage-tour
"According to The New Republic, 'a central tenet of NAR’s belief system is that it is God’s will for Christians to take control of all aspects of U.S. society…to create a religious nation.'
And for NAR leaders like Wallnau, the path toward that Christian nation has been to lift up Donald Trump into the halls of power."
#JDVance #LanceWallnau #NewApostolicReformation #theocracy
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Evan Hurst focuses on both New Apostolic Reformation and the TheoBros, noting about NAR that it holds that,
"Christians have a mandate from Heaven to exert dominion over what they call the seven 'mountains' of American life — family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government. There is no room for democracy in this movement, it’s authoritarian, and it craves a dictator."
#JDVance #LanceWallnau #NewApostolicReformation #theocracy #TheoBros
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https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/lets-meet-jd-vances-creepy-christian
cognitively accessible math