Gil Duran: Network State Meets The Seven Mountains Mandate: JD Vance, Charlie Kirk, The Rise of The Theo Bros

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Journalist Gil Duran explores the strange alliance between JD Vance, Silicon Valley and Christian Nationalists.

Experts say they are converging on the same anti-democratic playbook. From the Seven Mountains Mandate to "Network State" projects like Highland Rim, we expose how figures like JD Vance, Peter Thiel, and Doug Wilson are planning a theocratic-technocratic future.

Gil Duran speaks with Prof. Matthew Boedy, author of "The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy"

And Kiera Butler of Mother Jones, a national correspondent at Mother Jones.

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1. This is why we need to use the term "Theofascist". Their weird homebrew 'theology' has nothing to do with the beliefs

of ordinary Americans -- theirs is the extreme fringe of the extreme fringe. Calling them "Christofascists" is off-putting to Christians who don't see that the name "Christian" is being applied to utterly un-Christian concepts and behavior. "Theofascist" lays the blame closer to "theologians", a group which is pretty much outside the world of 'normal' Christians.

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