Reading List On Christian Political Theory

Rev. Bret L. McAtee,

I did a quick perusal on your blog but didn’t see anything, do you have anywhere a reading list for Christian political theory?

Dear Casey,

Here are a few books I’ve read that come immediately to mind;

Institutes of Biblical Law –Rushdoony
Law & Revolution (Two Volumes) — Harold Berman
Fountainhead of Federalism: Heinrich Bullinger & the Covenantal Tradition – McCoy/Baker
Lex Rex — Samuel Rutherford
The Law — Frederic Bastiat
The Hebrew Republic: The Matrix for America’s Civil Government — E. C. Wines
Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
The One & The Many — Rushdoony
The One, the Three and the Many — Colin Gunton
Considerations on France — Joseph de Maistre
The Dispossessed Majority — Wilmot Robertson
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning & Destiny of Liberalism — James Burnham

Leviathan & It’s Enemies — Samuel T. Francis
Christianity & Civilization (III Volumes) — James Jordan / Gary North
Millennialism and Social Theory — Dr. Gary North

I would also add something on how Bagels are a canker that eat away at Christian political order.

Election 2024 — A Brief Reprieve?

Do you suppose the Democratic party has learned anything from their defeat in 2024?Do you think that they will now reverse themselves touching their conviction that the planet is going to implode from climate change? Do you think that they will give up on the whole utter nonsense of “The Green New Deal?” Do you think that Democratic Governors will cease appointing sexual freaks like Rachel Levine to key posts in their administrations? Do you think that some Democrat will now arise who will say loudly and boldly, “Sex change operations for children at hospitals receiving state funding will no longer be a thing?” or “We are no longer housing males who pretend to be females with the female population in our prisons?” Will some Democrat say, “The whole concept of required DEI hiring as policy was not well thought out from the beginning.” Will Democrats give up on the policy of equity where they discriminate against able bodies cis-gendered whites in favor of crippled, lesbian, minorities?” Will some prominent white Democrat come out and say; “I love white people,” or “we must pursue policy that will strengthen and advantage our core population so that the whole country can prosper?” Will some Democrat apologize for the statement that “white supremacy groups are the greatest extant domestic terrorist threat to our country?” Will any Democrat, after the drubbing of 2024, now pursue a policy that finds the health of the traditional family as a cornerstone?” Will some Democrat come out and say, “Our push for sodomite marriage was not beneficial to our country?”

To the contrary, I suspect that the Democratic party is now so much the vehicle of the New World Order Cultural Marxist left that it will double down on the agenda that Democrats have been pursuing since the rise of the Clintons and the Obamas. I think this radical Cultural Marxism is in their bloodstream and as a party they will not be able to shift. Instead, what I anticipate is that they will now try to cloak their extremism. 2028 front running candidates like Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer will still run from the left while still desperately seeking to present themselves as moderate.

What has happened is that the Democrats have become Darth Vader’s embodiment of “The Empire” and we should be certain that they are even now plotting to “strike back.” The unfortunate reality here is that the coalition that defeated the Democratic Empire in 2024 may well not be stable enough to consistently defeat the Empire. This is due to the fact that in way of principle many of the Rebel forces hold to the same ideas of the Empire, even if those principles have not worked themselves out to their logical conclusions. For example, Rick Grenfell and Peter Thiel who are both part of the rebel forces are themselves sodomites. Tulsi Gabbard is Buddhist. Vivek Ramaswamy is Hindu. RFK Jr., Trump, and Matt Gaetz are all sexual Draculas. The Rebel forces are littered with Zionists from the new Sec. Def. to Huckabee as the new Ambassador to Israel. Still, we can continue to hope that God still draws straight lines with crooked sticks. But we shouldn’t count on in this case.

All of this reminds us that the Church must continue to be salt and light – and that to the Rebel forces as much as the Empire stormtroopers. The Church must lift up Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords who alone can deliver men from those sins that they are so tenaciously clinging to thinking that in those sins they will find meaning and fulfillment when in point of fact those very sins explains their unbearable guilt, their constant misery and continuing alienation from themselves, others, and from God.

Having said that we must admit that the Church itself, in many if not most of its expressions, is the Church of the Empire. It will not be a reforming agent until it is first Reformed. I have concluded that will not likely happen without abandoning the current infrastructure of conservative denominations. These denominations are maintained by men who have embraced Cultural Marxist leftist principles and so is of no use in terms of being salt and light. It is not a certainty but it is a pretty safe bet that our political parties will not reform the Church until the Church becomes again Reformed itself so it can be an agent of Reformation.

So, it looks we have been given a window of opportunity to get our house in order before we could see the Empire striking back.

Let us pray that we put the time we have to good use.

Stolen Election 2020

In 2008 George W. Bush was an extremely unpopular two term President. His approval ratings were all time lows. John McCain became the Republican nominee and was saddled with an economy (remember the 2008 Wall Street Market crash) that was horrid. In that election cycle that heavily favored the “out of power” party due to  a severe decline in the economy that almost always ends with the incumbents being thrown out of office, Barack Hussein Obama received 69,498,516 votes with 52.9% of total votes cast.

In 2012 Obama runs again for President and with the power of incumbency combined with a stable economy and a weak opponent (Mittens Romney) Obama garners; 65,915,795 votes with 51.1% of votes cast. Incumbents almost always are re-elected with the power of the White House behind them.

The recipe for throwing out incumbents is one or more of the following;

1.) A serious downturn in the economy

2.) A major foreign policy blunder
3.) Exposed significant corruption

Obama’s first term had avoided all of these and so he was re-elected with a comfortable margin over the weak neo-conservative candidate Mitt Romney.

In 20216 Hillary Clinton runs as Obama’s heir apparent. She has a good economy to run on. She faces a man who is considered one of the weakest candidates in Republican history ranking right up there with Wendell Willkie according to some. Despite having the power of incumbency (She was Obama’s Sec. State) and despite a decent, if not spectacular economy, Hillary is deeply unpopular and loses to Donald John Trump garnering 46.1% of the vote which translates to 65,853,514 votes.

In 2020 Trump runs for re-election. The nation is in turmoil from a manufactured pandemic. Prior to the pandemic though Trump was atop an economy that was better than any economy since Ronald Reagan’s second term. Trump runs against geriatric Joe Biden, who even in 2020 was showing signs of dementia. Remember the Democrats had not allowed Joe to lose the Iowa Democratic primary that year by reporting that the results could not be known for over two weeks due to a technological problems. By the time the results of Iowa election came in they were both disputed and any bump that might have been given to the winning candidate was no longer possible. Biden then finished 5th in New Hampshire but because of the support of James Clyburn he wins South Carolina and goes on to be the Democratic nominee. Biden runs a campaign from his basement, seldom doing campaign events due to fears of Covid. Despite his lackluster campaigning Biden wins a staggering 81,283,501 votes. The incumbent Donald Trump earns more votes (74,223,975) for a sitting President than had ever occurred previously in history.

Keep in mind that all this happens in the context of changed election laws in states allegedly precipitated by the pandemic. Biden received more votes from the Black community than was even cast for Barack Obama. Biden receives more votes for President than any man in US History.

Now in 2024 Trump runs again against Kamala Harris. It is true that Harris was running with a bad economy even though she had the power of incumbency behind her. As we know Kamala, as a black female, loses and in her loss she receives fewer black votes than Biden did. Trump receives fewer votes (roughly 600,000 fewer coming in at 73,663,351) than he did when he lost to Biden in 2020.

All of this to demonstrate, via vote totals, that it is beyond the ability to reckon that Biden was not elected by a well organized cheating campaign aided and abetted by the scamdemic. Clearly, the DEMS cheated again in 2024 but less efficiently so since several states had tightened up their election laws after 2020. The cheating of the DEMS is seen in 2024, by way of just one example, all the free media they received from the Lugenpress reporting “objective news.”

I would bet my retirement that the DEMS stole election 2020 and nobody will ever convince me otherwise. The DEMS cheated in a host of different ways. One of the major ways was exposed on the documentary 2000 mules. The DEMS used the fake Covid scamdemic to change election laws which allowed them to steal an election.

Further, I would bet that the DEMS tried to steal election 2024 but they couldn’t overcome the wave for Trump given how some states had tightened up election laws.

Texas State Congressman James Talarico Says Something Really Stupid

“Christian Nationalists are not interested in Christian values. They are only interested in legislating Christian dominance. Christian Nationalism (CN) is putting prayer in schools and taking free lunches out. CN is teaching the bible in schools but refusing to give teachers a pay raise. CN is forcing schools to post the ten commandments while nominating a candidate for President who has violated almost all of them. It is not about Jesus. It is about power.”

James Talarico
Texas State Congressman

1.) If Christian Nationalists are not interested in Christian values then they are not, by definition, Christian Nationalists.

2.) What could possibly be wrong with legislating Christian dominance? Is it only Christianity when one legislates the dominance of other non Christian religions?

3.) I am a Christian Nationalist. I am not interested in putting prayer in schools but I am interested in taking “free” lunches out. In point of fact, what I am really interested in is legislating a dominance that results in closing down completely government schools.

4.) There is no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody, somewhere is paying for that lunch.

5.) I am a Christian Nationalist. As a Christian Nationalist I am opposed to the humanist hacks they call “teachers” to teach the Bible in government schools. Can you imagine how badly they would do so? I am also opposed to giving teachers a school raise. In point of fact, in my Christian Nationalist world all government school teachers would be out of work since all government schools would be shut down. I would shut down government school since, as a Christian Nationalist, wanting dominance, I do not want humanists being dominant over children as seen in their teaching the children that humanism should be dominant in their thinking.

6.) If schools are shut down then the idea of posting the ten commandments is now big deal. However, if government schools are not shut down, why shouldn’t the ten commandments be posted since the refusal to post them demonstrates the States desire to have its religion be dominant.

7.) This chap was adamantly opposed to posting the 10 commandments in Texas schools and he contributed to killing the bill in Texas.

8.) In desiring to post the ten commandments while nominating Trump who has violated all of them, Christians are involved in contradiction for sure. However, all because someone supports something wrong (nominating Trump) doesn’t mean it is wrong for them to support a good thing (posting the ten commandments.) It merely means they are inconsistent. Talarico’s inconsistencies are all over this stupid quote. Does that mean everything the man does is wrong?

9.) What ever could be possibly wrong with wielding power? So what if it is about power? When one embraces Christ are they at that point no longer to have authority or power? Should they not have the power of Fathers or Husbands? Should they not have the power of employer or politician?

10.) Why is it that the idea of embracing Jesus automatically means the idea of giving up power? I don’t doubt that for some Jesus is used as a mask to grab power but that doesn’t mean that automatically Christianity and power are incompatible.

My Predictions For Election 2024

I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet. Having said that I thought I would have a go at predicting the outcome of the US Presidential election.

If cheating could be cut off, I believe that Trump would win going away. However, I think the Democrats have perfected the art of cheating, and I think that cheating will allow Heels Up Harris to win this election cycle.

Understand, that given my druthers I’d prefer Trump to win but what I might prefer to see happen can not be allowed to color what I think will happen.

There are some recent things happening though that mitigate against my instinctive belief that the worst of things is always bound to happen in the short term. First, Trump was endorsed by Joe Rogan last night. Rogan has a huge audience and I can’t help but wonder if that that can’t make a little difference in Trump’s favor. Also last night the Libertarian Party in the State of New Hampshire endorsed Trump, excusing themselves from supporting their own weed smoking Hippie candidate. This endorsement doesn’t mean much nationally but it could swing a few votes in New Hampshire, which most polls have Harris up about 4%. (However, I just saw a poll this morning done by Dartmouth that said Heels Up Harris was up 28% points in New Hampshire. If that ends up being accurate that presages Trump being destroyed in this election. I don’t think that will be accurate.)

There are other reasons to suspect that Trump might win. Realities like the Washington Post and the L.  A. Times refusing to endorse Harris might point towards a Trump victory. These Lugenpresse rags almost always endorse the Democrat. Also, Harris has failed to secure several of the major Union endorsements. This also could be read as an indicator that Trump wins.

Then there is the energy surrounding the Trump rallies. Unlike Harris rallies, no one has accused the Trump campaign of bussing in people to fill up the venues. The energy at the Trump rallies is electric and yet another indicator that Trump should win. Couple that with how several of the Tech moguls from Silicon Valley supporting Trump and one could be easily convinced that Trump will win tonight.

I also think that the Amen corner of Israel support favors Trump in this contest. I think that Israel believes that they would get more willing support from Trump than they would from Harris. Trump, having the Israeli Amen corner in his corner is a significant factor.

On top of all this the pollsters and pundits are saying that the early voting numbers favor the Republicans in comparison to 2020. Another indicator that Trump should win.

Yet despite all this I still think Harris ekes out a victory via cheating. I mean the cheating is already well established. Think about the billions of dollars of free advertising that the Lugenpresse has given Heels Up Harris. Think about all the blanketing of the Television airwaves in favor of Heels Up Harris. According to campaign finance laws all of this is illegal and so cheating. The support of the legacy press for Heels Up Harris is no longer even close to subtle. They are in full throated support of the female MK-Ultra candidate. Believe it or not, much of America still gets its “news” information source from the Lugenpress.

Another indicator of a Harris victory is the money raised during the campaign. Heels Up Harris’ campaign has given Democrats a substantive fundraising lead, with last-minute federal filings released ahead of Election Day suggesting her campaign is maintaining a massive lead over former President Donald Trump in the final days of the race, based on the bigger donors cutting checks to each candidates’ campaigns. The initially Biden and subsequently Harris—campaign committee raised $997.2 million and Trump’s campaign committee raised $388 million in total between Jan. 2023 and Oct. 16, 2024, the most recent date for which Federal Election Commission filings are available, ending with $118 million and $36.2 million in cash on hand, respectively. This is a strong indicator in favor of a Heels Up Harris victory.

Then there are the polls which consistently insist that this race is razor thin close. In a razor thin close contest Harris will win every single time no matter how many times the race could be repeated in alternate universes. For example, we are being told that states like Pennsylvania likely won’t have its counting done until Saturday. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the reason it will take so long to get the votes tallied is so that the Democrat criminals in Pennsylvania have enough time to manufacture the votes needed for Harris to win in a close contest. I can see that scenario being played out in several close state contests.

Michigan is another state they say is “to close to call.” Keep in mind though that in Michigan the Demoncrats own both houses, they own the Governor’s seat, Lt. Governor’s seat, the Secretary of State’s seat, and the Attorney General’s seat. There is no way in Hades that Trump will win a close race in Michigan.

If Harris wins, as I think she will, it proves that the Democrats could run a yellow dog at the top of the ticket and still win. Heels Up Harris has to be the worst Presidential candidate that I have ever seen in my lifetime. It is not even close. She has no public speaking skills. She can’t think on her feet. She has no substantial and detailed public policies. Her persona is irritable with her nervous laughter and haughty disposition. She has demonstrated little to no ability to connect with your average voter on a personal level. And by all accounts behind closed doors she is not a nice person.

Yet this is where we have come to in America. It demonstrates that our problems are not with our leadership but instead our problem is with our citizenry. That Kamala Harris, win or lose, could get close to 50% of the vote tells me that sanity is in short supply in America. We deserve the leaders we get. God’s judgments are altogether just.

Keep an eye on New Hampshire. As I said earlier if Trump is trounced in New Hampshire (and those results will come in comparatively early) Trump is not likely to win the election. Keep an eye next on Pennsylvania. It’s hard to see how Heels Up Harris can win this election without winning Pennsylvania. Of course, as I noted earlier, we will not likely learn of Pennsylvania’s vote until later in the week … if then.

I expect the outcome of this election cycle to be so close it is contested. I expect it to be so close that there will be civil unrest in some places. If it is that close I don’t expect Trump or Harris to concede. I do expect Trump to claim victory at some point and I expect that the Heels Up Harris campaign will come out vigorously denying his victory. I expect the “news” media to somehow put its thumb on the scale the way they did in 2020 by calling races way to early. I don’t expect the kind of live lamenting from the legacy media that we saw in 2016 when Trump won. I think they’ve been practicing to keep a straight face.

I suspect that there will be some surprises tonight along the way.

Finally, I suspect that we won’t know who is President when we go to bed tonight.

If Heels Up Harris wins tonight I believe the uniparty aspect of our politics is solidified for decades and decades to come. Even if a Republican party remains after a defeat tonight it will clearly be a “Me-too” party.

On the Senate and House side of matter, it looks as if the Republicans will gain the Senate while the House could go either way. Let’s opine that the Republicans keep the House by the narrowest of margins. If this is accurate then President Heels Up Harris will be slowed a little from her agenda.

If Harris wins I see her seeking to pack the SCOTUS, to implement a mandatory gun buy back program, I see an increase of censorship laws, I see amnesty for the illegals with very little being done about the border. I see the acceleration of the pervert class. I see more tax and spend with the continued shrinking of the middle class. I see the internet being censored more heavily. Hard to believe though it may be I see the ditz trying to implement price and wage controls. I see the the continuation of the goal to replace White people in America. In brief I see the expansion of tyranny.

However, its not as if America has not earned these just judgments of God’s.

Lord, in wrath, remember mercy.