William Wolfe

But even before this happened, I was, shall we say, interested and slightly suspicious because people that I do know started getting invited.

people like Matthew Peterson, who was mentioned in the Eric Erickson attack article a while back, William Wolfe, a few others.

Now, I should say, I kind of know William Wolfe.

I met him in a bar once.

I wasn't there to meet him.

If you take a more dim view of him, you view that as sort of another iteration of a pattern with certain Zionists, setting that to the side.

I was obviously interested to see what would come out of this.

William Wolfe's speech is available.

In other words, deterrence, Walker says.

Josh Howerton, another right-wing evangelical megachurch pastor who's like been all over the place lately, concurred, as did, no surprise, William Wolfe, right? This is, so William says, warn those who would consider doing Similar Acts, our ancestors used to know this.

They weren't barbarians.

We are, and goes on and on.

There is this tacit surrender that lies within some Christians' involvement in politics, particularly the evangelical streak in the US.

And this is something that William Wolfe actually called out in his speech.

He said that essentially American evangelical Protestants, the founding stock of the nation, have retreated from being the most dominant part of the Republican coalition and have surrendered it to we Catholics, something that's also happening over in the UK as well.

And to Jews, because a lot of Jews involved in Republican politics prominently, despite them overwhelmingly, the Jewish population of the United States, voting for Democrat.

religious toleration will permit our destruction by the kinds of foreign pagans that the likes of Leviticus and Deuteronomy and the epistles of Paul say is basically a curse from God to allow into your lands and to rule over you.

So let's not do that.

Better speeches, as I said, were given by the likes of William Wolfe.

So William Wolfe decided to explain the waning support among Americans for Israel from his position as a Baptist.

One panel in particular has consumed online right-wing discussion for an entire week.

My friends Matt Peterson, Amanda Milius, Jonathan Kiefermann, and William Wolfe gave bracing, frank, and provocative speeches on what they see as the reasons for why support for Israel is softening on the American right, especially among conservatives under 40, and what could be done to bolster that support.

My guest today is Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, the man behind NatCon, and the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation, where I serve as vice president of external affairs.

We talk about why we took the conference to Jerusalem, how and why that panel was conceived, and what Yoram makes of the various critiques of that panel and the conference as a whole.

It has a eschatology spin to it, at least in some part, and really just looking at what the Scripture says and how these things relate in our everyday lives.

We're going to be looking at a clip from William Wolfe, a conservative podcast, SBC podcast.

leader, and he was in Jerusalem recently at a conference he was invited to, and he was asked to speak, and a number of things erupted online in the Twitter sphere, as it's called.

And we're going to be looking at that coming up right now.

And you're like.

Did what? Like, it's just it's so backward.

And all William Wolfe is saying is, listen, people are confused.

People don't like this.

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And William Wolfe, Southern Baptist, especially on October 7th.

This is wrong.

I am confident that Yoram doesn't share all their views, but I am equally confident that Yoram, an American Jew who is also an Israeli and who lives in Jerusalem, understands the new and coming political situation in the US better than most Israelis, and even better than most pro-Israeli Americans.

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Today, we're gonna be doing an audible topic with, uh, you know, Christian nationalist, uh, William Wolfe.

Uh, he told some truth at the, uh, na- uh, National, uh, Conservatism Conference, NatCon as it's often called, which is a Jewish conference that is very influential on the right.

And, you know, it's more intellectual than, say, a TPUSA event, but it is of a similar level.

It's more highbrow, but it is nevertheless a very influential conference.

Uh, we've covered it in the past with, like, uh, Doug Wilson and Al Mohler going to it.

We're talking about William Wolfe specifically tonight, who has spoken there, uh, years ago he spoke there, so this is not his first time speaking there.

And as I understand it, every other year the conference is in the United States, and in some years the conference is abroad, like, in the, on the off year the conference is abroad.

Yeah, I think there's three broad coalitions.

And I know William Wolfe has touched on this before.

I'm not sure if he came up with this because I know there's sub coalitions in it, but I want to give him credit.

There's your populists, essentially, and Pat Buchanan would be a representative of that.