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S15 EP166: Hour 1 - The Midwest Fuhrerbunker

Episode length: 37m

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Erick names the names. He walks through his newsletter on Charles Haywood, the shampoo magnate turned self-described would-be warlord whose money runs through the Claremont Institute, the Society for American Civic Renewal, American Reformer, New Founding and American Moment, and who is funding a push into the Southern Baptist Convention, the PCA and the Global Methodist Church. Then the economy turns ugly: oil over $100 a barrel, diesel near $6.22 a gallon, and a Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh widely expected to raise interest rates.

  • Charles Haywood, the "foundationalist manifesto," and the call for an American Caesar
  • Claremont Institute money, the Society for American Civic Renewal, Nate Fisher, American Reformer, William Wolfe and the Center for Baptist Leadership
  • Carl Schmitt's friend and enemy politics, the twisting of "love your enemies," and the "no enemies to the right" doctrine
  • Bo French, Jack Posobiec and Benny Johnson attacking Indian American kids in Texas, and why it is racism
  • Oil over $100, diesel near $6.22, the Strait of Hormuz, Patriot and THAAD interceptor burn rates, and an expected Fed rate hike
  • A caller on energy independence: why America exports record oil but cannot refine its own sweet crude
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Erick Erickson