04a Faith

Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind demagogues.” – Paul Gordon Collier

“Then Absalom would say, ‘Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.’ And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.” – 2 Samuel 15:4-6

An image of an Islamist tossing an IED over the shoulder of a Progmerican protesting a white supremacist anti-Islamist rally captured three bad paths for this land to follow in this post-Trump land.

All three lead to the creation of priest-kings of hate. All three lead to the death of America for good. The Progmerican press emphasizes the white supremacist, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The conservative press emphasizes the Islamists, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The Islamists celebrate the terrorists.

The Progmerican press and conservative press are protecting their interests, none of which necessarily agrees with the ideologues they are de facto protecting. Both sides are protecting their audiences from questions they shouldn’t dare ask, like “are we becoming allies of ACTUAL Islamic terrorists?” or “do we ACTUALLY have a white supremacist problem among the right?”

By not asking the questions, they are only empowering the very enemies they think they are opposing. In one moment, competing anti-American interests crossed paths.

On March 7, 2026, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were caught on video attempting to bomb an Anti-Islam protest with IEDs. They tossed one lit IED, failed to activate another one, and a third one found later turned out to be a dud. Had the two REAL IEDs gone off successfully, the likelihood of death would have been high, and severe life-altering injuries would have been almost certain.

The two IEDs were made with TATP (triacetone triperoxide), which is called “Mother of Satan.” It is an extremely “effective” explosive. That explosive material is mixed with nuts, bolts, and screws, all designed to maximize the effective kill range of the IED.

Authorities have determined this was a terror attack. Both men call it an ISIS-styled terror attack, with one, Balat, confessing he wanted an attack that would be bigger than the Boston marathon bombing. Fortunately, he didn’t get his way.

The attack took place just outside the new DNC Islamist NY Mayor’s home, Gracie Mansion. The Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was quick to blame the “white supremacists” for inciting the attack in the first place.

Balat was born in Turkey and came over with his wealthy parents. Kayumi has a similar story, but he comes from Afghanistan. They both lived in Bucks County, PA before the attack.

A still-shot of the video of the moment one of the Islamists threw a lit IED captured the zeitgeist of our times. Right before the IED was thrown, leftist actor Walter Masterson was making a speech in support of open borders, in support of New York being for everyone.

The IED was thrown over Masterson’s shoulder, who had no idea how close he came to death. Masterson himself has come out afterwards continuing to support open borders.

The targets for the Islamist attack were the attendees of a protest called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer.” The primary driver of the event was MAGA influencer Jake Lang, who was also one of the pardoned J6 political prisoners. Lang appears to have organized multiple anti-immigrant and anti-Islamist rallies.

He is often referred to as a white supremacist and a Nazi by his detractors. There seems to be evidence he just might ACTUALLY fit the bill for such charges. For instance, Lang constantly talks about “white Christians” as opposed to ALL Christians, and he is constantly talking about securing a future for “white children” instead of “all children.”

I understand that merely believing the theory that Progmericans wish to brown America at the expense of white America does NOT make you a white supremacist, but Lang seems to go beyond that. He advocates for a “pro-white Christian America” and seems to advocate entangling the Kingdom of God with the state, something I vehemently oppose.

As a matter of fact, on April 10, 2026, our subscribers will get a digital copy of my essay, Fear of Suffering and Death, which attacks the very concept of mixing Christianity with the state.

Lang here serves as one potential path the liminal Presidency of Donald Trump could lead us to, while Masterson represents another.  Lang represents the hard right response to the existential threat of Progmerica, which ends up destroying Americanism every bit as much, as fast, and as hard as full-fledged Progmerica will.

Lang is the rare case of someone actually using REAL dog whistles of white supremacism. He is also one of those rare cases where someone is actually caught making a Nazi salute.

Masterson represents full-fledged Progmerica. This nation watches its women get raped, its children get plundered, all while it cheers on the invaders. These invaders were sponsored by the same people they were paid to rape, murder, pillage, and plunder Americans.

Masterson has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” which is us, we Americans (especially the whites), while Lang has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” us, the Americans (especially the non-whites) AND Progmericans (especially the whites).

While the Democrat Media emphasized the white supremacism of Jake Lang and referred to the Islamist attackers as “teenagers,” the “conservative” media has focused almost entirely on the Islamists in their stories, effectively de-emphasizing the white supremacist part of this story.

It is a foregone conclusion that the Democrat Media will use Jake Lang as the poster child for any individual or group expressing ANY ideas connected to Lang. The idea they most want to kill is the idea that they really are trying to end the white race in America. It is the question they themselves don’t want to be asked, “are we really trying to intentionally end a race’s very existence in this land?”

They know, deep down, the answer is yes, though if push came to shove, I expect most of them will blink before they fully throw in with the final solution for the white American. For now, most of them assume ending “whiteness” is merely ending the American republic, the Patriarchy, Christianity, and the nuclear family, not ending the ACTUAL white race itself.

The white devil is an overhyped monster with little to no real power in America today. Lang’s rallies, for instance, are all poorly attended. Yet, failure by the conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist element of this story as well COULD lead to rallies that are a little more well-attended.

Nick Fuentes, however, is another ACTUAL white supremacist (and now, apparently, Democrat Party supporter) that DOES have a significant audience already, largely because difficult questions cannot be asked.

Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind the demagogue. This is the power behind Nick Fuentes. The questions, the difficult questions that cannot be asked aren’t necessarily salient ones, or even any based in truth (though some might well be both), but that they cannot be asked at all has given them a power that works counter to the reason for oppressing the questions in the first place.

On the right, some of those difficult questions are “Is there a white supremacist movement growing from among us?” To that, I would say, my understanding of human nature, of history, would strongly suggest this would be a natural backlash to the anti-white ideology Progmerica represents.

But in America, we white Americans have bulwarks against sectarian temptations. We white Americans possess something most nations don’t have, and that is the core of our national unity, our belief in the inalienable rights of ALL men. This belief is shared by every American of every race, for it is THIS belief alone that makes us all American.

For most of the non-Progmerican whites, I would wager, the overwhelming majority think of America as the whole of all the parts it already has, and has to some degree from its inception, mainly its diverse beliefs and ethnicities.

This is a radical challenge for the human species, to be able to form a union around mutual respect of self-stewardship alone, no matter the race or the belief system of the other, so long as they are willing to operate under the same civil standards.

Humanity has organized around ethnicity mostly. It has organized around belief alone almost never. Even England was not merely bound by its contracts, it was also bound by its blood. The great question that remains unanswered is “Can humans form a non-biological ethne that allows for diversity of belief on the nature of being and valuing?”

America has the greatest opportunity to break down factional tribalism and sectarianism both biologically and ideationally. America has the opportunity, through her pre-existing values of “individual liberty,” to create a new ethne not formed through anything but mutual respect of one another’s liberty.

America has the opportunity to create a bridging standard that allows a wide swathe of belief systems to co-exist with one another so long as they do not support using coercion (from the state or corporate monopolistic power) to impose their beliefs on others. The only beliefs that can be imposed on Americans are the beliefs in individual liberty and self-stewardship for all American citizens.

Jake Lang calls his white supremacism MAGA, sullying both the American name and MAGA. The MAGA movement, as a whole, is not white supremacist, and this writer suspects the majority of them are true Americans, wanting to live in peace with ANY neighbor, so long as they are willing to live in peace with them as well.

Walter Masterson has rejected America altogether. As a white man, he represents a certain psychotic spirit of self-annihilation affirmed in his continued embrace of the people who just tried to kill him (and almost succeeded).

Fortunately, Lang doesn’t represent the majority of MAGA, but failure by conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist part of this story only empowers people like Lang himself, and even Nick Fuentes, who will both revel that the right doesn’t even dare ask the question, “do we have a white supremacist problem?”

The now iconic image of Masterson’s shoulder serving as the launching pad for an IED by an Islamist against an actual white supremacist rally serves as an indictment of the spirit of our land, a land that continues to support abortion openly and proudly.

Such a nation cannot hold on to the human in the other, which gives rise to sub-humanizing movements, all represented here, the Islamist, the Progmerican, and the Neo-Nazi, all three representatives of the potential paths we could follow after Trump goes away.

President Trump is the liminal figure, the representation of a nation unsettled on what it wants to be next, largely because it has so many new players (and not just among the recent and even not-so recent “imports” of humans).

Yet underneath it all is an answer that would fell all three, an answer this writer believes most of the people in this land want, the American Bill of Rights plumbline of the state restored, and the freedoms she creates extended to ALL who are willing to recognize the freedoms inherent in the other, even when they hate that same other.