“Right Wing Of 2026 Needs To Make RW Of 2025 Look Like Liberals”

Is that a cringeworthy headline? If it isn’t, it will do until the real thing comes along. If you take it on its face, it leads straight to fascism. The quote is made by a Christian Nationalist and these people are frightening. They believe that there should be not only no separation between church and state but that the church should be the state. That’s the essence of the Christian Nationalist or Dominionist theory of religion. The Dominionists seek to take over family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government, which they refer to as the Seven Mountains. So bearing that in mind, listen to this.

C. Jay Engel says Christian nationalists must take advantage of the fact that there are "right-wing Heritage Americans in staff positions all over Washington": "The American right wing of 2026 needs to make the American right wing of 2025 look like liberals."… pic.twitter.com/BuTKFNBl3U

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 9, 2025

The man you just heard is C. Jay Engel. He lives with his wife and four homeschooled children in the Sierra Nevadas of Northern California. He shares this cheerful anecdote.

I venture to say that his four homeschooled kids can’t spell “cat” properly but I’m sure that they get the gist of racism. And like all good fascists, Engel has seen fit to codify his manifesto and post it where it can be read by the public. When I read the phrase “Heritage American” I didn’t know if he meant people who worked for the Heritage Foundation or what exactly. This is what he means.

When I say Heritage American, this is what I mean: those who are ethno-culturally tied to the ethos and spirit of the United States prior to its definitional transformation into a Propositional Nation after World War II. This therefore includes the type of people that came here…

— C.Jay Engel 🌲 (@contramordor) May 26, 2024

Here’s the whole thing if you can stomach it.

When I say Heritage American, this is what I mean: those who are ethno-culturally tied to the ethos and spirit of the United States prior to its definitional transformation into a Propositional Nation after World War II. This therefore includes the type of people that came here during the Ellis Island generation, even if that was a significant sociopolitical mistake. We are also the product of our mistakes as a nation.

It includes the blacks of the Old South (like Booker T Washington), though it repudiates any instinct that some of them have to leverage their experience for the purposes of political guilt in our time. It also includes integrated Native Americans with the same stipulation. It affirms however the domination and pre-eminence of the European derived peoples, their institutions, and their way of life. Heritage America is centered around the experiences and norms of Anglo-Protestants. It was their customs, their instincts, their priorities, their norms, their struggles, their perspectives, that set the tone and vision of Heritage America.

Anything outside of that either assimilated or was killed off. When we speak of heritage America, we speak of an actual body of institutions created by a nexus of a specific people; dominated and defined by Anglos and their children. It is not an idea, it is a body of actual ways and habits and standards of culture and behavior, connected by a shared experience and the inheritance of that memory. It is communicated by certain aesthetics, certain art, certain, folklore, certain music, and certain symbols. Excludes all of the items in those categories that are not consistent with the character of our version of them. Once that ethos was liquidated, America was subverted and taken over. Heritage America has strong ethnic, correlations—and even types of hierarchies— but it is not racially essentialist in an absolutist way (after all we are not social rationalists). However, I should also note that this does not preclude any ethnic consciousness that might be necessary to confront the ethnic consciousness of the left in their own definition of friends and enemies.

The point is that heritage America affirms the basic goodness and defensibility of America as it existed prior to World War II and defined itself in light of a shared experience of an actual people, not mere propositions voluntarily assented to. To support heritage America is to consider all the various factions (Yankee vs Dixie or Whig vs Democrat) as part of our story and Mosaic. In other words, we don’t let outsiders make us pick sides on those things. It is a charming series of tensions that is only appropriate for heritage Americans to debate about. Once we are critiqued by the outsiders, we stand together and affirm the goodness of it all. Heritage America, of course, is most consistent with anglo Protestantism.

But that does not mean that all groups outside of that core are equally dangerous to it. There is a spectrum at play wherein some peoples are less threatening to its ethos than others. There is a high correlation between that spectrum and the broadening circles extending out from Western Europe. Such that peoples like Indians, or South East Asians or Ecuadorians or immigrated Africans are the least capable of fitting in and should be sent home immediately.

Whereas groups, like Irish or Italians or Catholics may not fit the original core, but were closer on the spectrum, being Europeans. All politics is contextual and situational. All that to say, the key period is after World War II. That’s when we transformed from a people with a shared way of life to a propositional nation constituted by mere abstract “values.”

Intriguing that WWII was a fight against expansionist dictatorships which arose after WWI. This treatise seems to be in favor of an American dictatorship, based on race, with the basis being who fits the “core” Heritage American definition or who is not core (like Irish and Italians) but being Europeans are close enough to core to fit in.

As I’ve said before, these people are in the shadows. But that doesn’t make them any the less dangerous. The GOP got taken over by its splinter groups, the white nationalists, the so-called Xian nationalists, and the anti-woman, anti-gay groupies, and they all united under the MAGA banner. And that’s how we got saddled with Trump. It didn’t just happen overnight, the seeds were planted a very long time ago. It behooves us to make ourselves aware of all political movements and ideas around us.

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