It's Not Rocket Science

The self-described “Reformed Christian Nationalist” movement, from its inception, has been dominated by a short list of personalities:

• Stephen Wolfe (and his sidekick, Thomas Achord)

• Joel Webbon (and his sidekick, “Wesley Todd”)

• Eric Conn and Brian Sauvé

• Andrew Torba

• Andrew Isker (and his sidekick, CJay Engel)

• William Wolfe

• More recently, Michael Spangler (and his sidekick, Cody Justice)

To be sure, there are a host of lesser-known characters openly allied with the above men (Zachary Garris, J. Chase Davis and Jon Harris serve as more notable examples), but ask just about anyone remotely in the know to name a “Reformed Christian Nationalist” and they will likely give you someone on this list. Every single one of these men has directly promoted racist and/or antisemitic beliefs and/or tropes.

Both Wolfes, Achord, Webbon, Todd, Conn, Sauvé, Isker and Engel have explicitly promoted eugenics, usually by referencing the pseudoscience of physiognomy or by calling people “dysgenic.”

What “Todd” promotes here is, in fact, the core tenets of white supremacy.

Both Wolfes, Achord, Webbon, Todd, Conn, Sauvé, Torba, Isker, Engel, and Spangler have directly spread antisemitic views and/or tropes.

Achord, Conn, Torba, Engel,¹ Spangler and Justice have promoted neo-Nazi slogans or outright promoted Nazism.

“No more brother wars” is a neo-Nazi slogan that can be traced back at least thirty years. It’s even been the title of at least two compilation albums of neo-Nazi bands.

Note how this comment under a “No more brother wars” video makes use of the fourteen words of white nationalism.

I could go on, but the above should be more than enough evidence for anyone with a modicum of discernment. All of these men also, of course, talk about the “Christian magistrate” and establismentarianism, but it’s a ridiculously thin cover for what they’re mainly trying to launder into “Reformed” discourse. Those within Christian academia who continue to research, and publicly address, “Reformed Christian Nationalism” firstly and primarily from the position of magisterial Protestantism are not seeing the forest for the trees and are ultimately providing cover for what has, from the beginning, been a white-nationalist movement.

1. “By God, we’ll have our home again” is the anthem of the explicitly white-nationalist offshoot of the Proud Boys, Männerbund (men’s club, which is what the Brown Shirts were originally classified as).