Hyper-masculine content is the far right's new elixir.
From Hesgeth check soldier's testosterone levels to Baron Trump becoming friends with podcasters online who push... "manosphere".
A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men. Its audience is small but growing, and their movement has ties to powerful religious and political figures.Religious New ServiceBob SmietanaSeptember 24, 2026Michael Spangler does not look like a white supremacist and antisemite.He has no visible tattoos, no shaven head, no black overcoat or jackboots. No hood, no Confederate flag and no Nazi images appear in the background as he sits in front of a screen for a recent Zoom interview.Instead, the soft-spoken Christian school teacher and pastor of Piedmont Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sporting a neatly trimmed beard, was dressed in a charcoal suit and sat in front of a fish tank that seemed straight off the set of Pixar’s “Finding Nemo.”Then he began talking about Jews. And a broad smile broke across his face.“You’re asking if I oppose the Jews who murdered Christ?” said Spangler as he paraphrased a verse from the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Thessalonians, which he says labels Jews as “the enemies of God and all men.”“We need to consider them and treat them accordingly.”A segregationist and “race realist” whose start-up church, which has a handful of families, bars Black people out of fear of “harmful race-mixing,” Spangler is one of a small but growing group of pastors and internet influencers who openly embrace racist and antisemitic views, casting them as true Christian ideas.
These are the extremists of the extremists.
The former president’s youngest son emerges from the shadows, forging connections with controversial influencer Andrew Tate and taking a surprising role in his father’s campaign.Grand Pinnacle TribuneDecember 12, 2025Key PointsAI-Generated Summary
- Report reveals Barron Trump engaged in private Zoom calls with Andrew Tate, accused of serious crimes and whose release was aided by the Trump administration.
- Barron Trump developed mentorship ties with Tate's associate Justin Waller, including receiving dating advice and socializing within Tate's influencer circle.
- Barron actively advised Donald Trump's 2024 campaign on targeting young male voters through popular podcasts, earning praise from senior campaign advisor Jason Miller.
Barron Trump, the youngest son of former President Donald Trump, has long been something of an enigma. At 19 years old and a student at New York University, Barron has managed to keep a remarkably low profile compared to his older siblings, shunning social media, business ventures, and the political spotlight—at least until recently. But a series of revelations over the past week have pulled him into the public eye, painting a strikingly different portrait of the young Trump than many may have expected.According to a December 10, 2025 report by The New York Times, Barron Trump has been engaging in private Zoom conversations with Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer and self-styled manosphere leader who has been accused of sex trafficking, rape, and other crimes in Romania. Tate and his brother Tristan were, until earlier this year, prohibited from leaving Romania as authorities investigated allegations that they pressured women into pornography and other illicit activities. The Times further reports that the Trump administration played a role in securing the Tate brothers' freedom earlier in 2025, a move that has raised eyebrows and sparked debate about the intersection of power, politics, and celebrity influence.
I would like to point out that Baron's father lost a civil case on rape.
How a network of pastors and influencers is repackaging segregationist theology—and finding an audience for it online.Religious News ServiceComplexifiedOctober 1, 2026[...]WOODWARD: Bob, you’ve recently published a story with a very provocative title, “The Rise of the Jim Crow Theobros.” First of all, what is a theobro?SMIETANA: Sure. There’s a kind of subset of evangelical pastors. They’re known for their beards and their dark suits and their very serious demeanor. They’re mostly Calvinists or part of what it’s called the Reformed Church.WOODWARD: Okay.SMIETANA: So they believe in things like predestination, and they’re very concerned that men should be in charge of both the household and the church. There’s a bit of a stereotype, you know, the nickname theobro. It’s like bros who are into theology.WOODWARD: So what turns a regular theobro into a Jim Crow theobro?SMIETANA: So they’re followers of John Calvin, who’s one of the reformers. Calvin was French, but he was known for a couple things: his work on predestination, so that God predestines some people to be saved and some people to be damned, his idea that, you know, the sovereignty of God, that God’s in charge of everything. And for these folks, there’s this kind of idea that men should be in charge. It’s called complementarianism sometimes. Part of what they are is a response to nondenominational Christianity, which kind of downplays theology. There’s a whole group of people who studied John Calvin, who was their first exposure to really serious theology, and they became part of this reformed movement.
So this is all party of the "Woman's place is in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant." anti-LGBTQ+, anti-foreigners, and anti-non-Christians. Only fire and brimstone religions are allowed. They think that only men should vote.
People who want to turn us into a Christian Afghanistan. In other words into a fascist theocracy.
