Contra Mundum

With the recent social media phenomenon of women finding out how often men think about Ancient Rome, the ubiquitous comparisons between late-imperial Rome and the dying American Empire have appeared.

It is a good time to revisit this article by Michael Anton which has aged extremely well: https://archive.ph/zsTNV

What if there is no clear historical analog to give us a roadmap for our future? What if our situation is entirely unprecedented in world history?

The G3 Conference came and went, but not before Owen Strachan courageously took a stand against something no one anywhere believes.

We discuss why the evangelical industrial complex plays rhetorical games like this, what is behind their attacks on Christian Nationalism, and what this means for the future.

We also discuss Donald Trump's terrible comments on abortion, what his candidacy means in the greater meta-political picture, how electoral politics has changed after Dobbs, and why Pro Life, Inc. has always been horrible and how this has become even more obvious after Roe was overturned.

Was Joe McCarthy right? Did communists infiltrate all of American society and even the government in the middle of the 20th Century?

Is the country we now have the result of this communist infiltration? What exactly happened here that caused everything to go so bad, so quickly?

Well, yes, but it is a lot more complex than that.

Lafayette Lee joins us for Part 2 of our discussion the political revolution that was the New Deal and the infiltration of communists controlled by the Soviet Union.

Most Americans catechized in the Regime historical narrative believe that the New Deal was a tremendously successful economic program that brought America out of the Great Depression and that FDR was the savior of America both with regard to the domestic economic disaster and the Second World War.

But to those who would depart from the approved court history, the New Deal was a radical political revolution that removed popular sovereignty from the elected legislature and established a managerial Regime, erecting a massive administrative state that actually governs the nation and discarding the constitutional republic that had existed since 1787. All that remained was a nominal constitution. Now, the actual political power is in the hands of legions of unelected bureaucrats and apparatchiks that have increasingly become a truly totalitarian regime.

Lafayette Lee (@Partisan_O) joins us to discuss the revolutionary change to the American republic that occurred in the middle of the 20th Century, and what it means for us now 90 years later.

Lee's work can be found at im1776.com and ruins.substack.com

His Oppenheimer review mentioned in the broadcast can be found here: https://im1776.com/christopher-nolan-sleight-of-hand/

The "normie," the "grill American," or whatever you want to call the regular person who does not take much interest in the ongoing political and cultural revolution is a force that is almost always only ever acted upon.

What happens when they become radicalized? What will it take for a substantial number of them to be radicalized?

We also discuss what it means for evangelical Christianity to be "Longhoused."

For reference to that term: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/what-is-the-longhouse

So often, "meritocracy" is presented as the antidote to wokeness. But is it? Is it possible that meritocracy is just the other side of the coin of liberalism compared to DEI? When civilization still existed a century before did the people pine for meritocracy? Or did they live in a different way?

Are there problems with meritocracy that people do not recognize? Is having a technocratic regime supervising your hiring decisions really what you want?

Nate Fischer of New Founding joins Contra Mundum to discuss this as well as all the recent attacks on the New Christian Right in recent weeks and to explain what it all means and the way forward for us.

We hope you enjoy!

Oliver Anthony's viral hit has become a litmus test for many in the online Christian world.

Some evangelical leaders and movement conservative pundits immediately denounced the song for its obvious populist themes. Other online Christians took an opportunity to "Jesus juke" saying Appalachia "needs the gospel, not political or cultural change." As if the two are opposed!

The song gave CJay an opportunity to be attacked by hundreds of leftists and other bio-leninists for calling for southern reparations. We discussed the South's place in Western history, hierarchical society, the political problem of slavery in the 19th Century, and how we should approach these difficult and contentious topics.

This week we discuss the recent very sad incident with a fedpoasting Utah man who met his end at the hands of an FBI SWAT team. What are we to think of the phenomenon of angry, frustrated Boomers venting on social media? What does the church have to offer men like this?

We also discuss the new Cold War between the GAE and BRICS as it is playing out in Africa.

We close out the show with a conversation on "just follow the Consitution and love liberty" as a political strategy. Who is going to make them "just follow the constitution"? How do written constitutions even work without anyone to enforce them? What do you do when the Constitution is only ever enforced against your side? Is it possible that a state of emergency can exist where you are forced to take extra-constitutional action to restore constitutional order? What did George Washington do if not that? Or the great movement conservative hero, Abraham Lincoln, for that matter (from their perspective anyway)?

Jon Harris from @ConversationsThatMatterpodcast joins us to discuss Big Evangelicalism.

Since 2020, the fractures that have long existed within evangelicalism have become impossible to ignore. We discuss the direction things will take, strategies for the future, and what a faithful, rightist Christian remnant will do in the insanity that is sure to continue.

Russell Moore wrote in the Atlantic recently about evangelical "homelessness" he feels because of MAGA Republican fundamentalists. Why do these types talk like this? What do they really mean? And how is it used to destroy all that we love and hold dear?

Also, we discuss the latest Emmett Till controversy and how narratives used to support revolutionary political change shouldn't be treated as sacrosanct.