Thread by @A9Collective

William E. Wolfe is a former Trump official, current Southern Baptist seminarian, and current theofascist. He exemplifies how the worst tendencies on the Right today aren’t fringe, but smack dab in the movement’s mainstream. 1/38

Al Mohler is being pressured to fire Willy the Wolfe (as we’ll call him here) for supporting Xian nationalism. We affirm that Willy should be run out of polite society. Let’s examine the past, harms, and context of this Wolfe in sheep’s clothing.

https://twitter.com/pastordmack/status/1566275649647550465

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While folks put a lot of emphasis on street-fighting miscreants like the Proud Boys, Willy The Wolfe flaunts his fash with a suit and tie on. People like him in government allow people like the PBs to flourish in the military. rollcall.com/2021/02/16/pen… 3/38

Whether in his capacity working for State and Defense departments, or his capacity as seminarian and pastor, Wolfe is dedicated to using sheer power, coercion, and aggression to making sure his notion of a Christian America accrues money, resources, and firepower. 4/38

Willy was Trump's Deputy Ass’t Secretary of Defense for House affairs. As this congressional letter shows, he helped DoD avoid questions about its rapid Afghanistan withdrawal, which set up the horrific Afghanistan exit. 5/38

His LinkedIn (which you can’t find anymore - curious!) even brags that he “oversaw negotiations to remove a subpoena threat from the House Committee on Oversight/Subcommittee on National Security.” Translation: he helped DoD avoid accountability for a reckless withdrawal. 6/38

Trump selfishly accelerated removing troops to boost his election chances. At the 9.22.20 hearing, DoD official David Helvey dodged questions about this acceleration and claimed Trump was pursuing “prudent” action. His coach for the hearing would have been Willy the Wolfe. 7/38

This point is ESPECIALLY galling because Willy has the temerity to complain about Biden’s exit strategy in Afghanistan, That exit was horrific BECAUSE of the recklessness that Willy directly enabled under Trump, for political gain. 8/38

Since Willy was still working for Defense in January 2021, he'd know about Defense’s communication (or lack of it) with Congress and the WH before and during J6. Someone should ask him about the Pentagon’s (in)action via the National Guard.
businessinsider.com/pentagon-hinde… 9/38

Moving onto his work for State. While he was Director of House Affairs for State’s Bureau of Legislative Affairs, the Bureau opposed a bill meant to deter Russia and ran interference for State’s arms dealing with the UAE. cnn.com/2020/05/22/wor… 10/38

As Director, Willy would have been front and center of ANY State response to congressional legislation. So he definitely helped obfuscate questionable arms dealings with the UAE and enabled Russia’s interference. 11/38

Wonder if Willy’s pro-Russian actions on behalf of State have anything to do with this Yellow Peril tweet that downplays Putinism in comparison. 12/38

So Willy clearly doesn’t care about brown Muslim lives or about victims of Russian aggression. He pretty obviously loathes minorities within US borders, too. Here he is complaining that diversifying VA’s teacher pool is “racism against whites.” 13/38

Here Willy is liking a rallying cry to defend Michelle Malkin, a NOTORIOUS white nationalist who’s allied with Nick Fuentes and was banned from AirBnB for attending white supremacist group American Renaissance’s Nashville event in Feb 2022. 14/38

Here’s Willy “accidentally” using a 19th century slur for Chinese people. Of course, people who are actually anti-racist would have apologized and deleted their “accidental” racism. Not Willy! 15/38

NBD, just Willy liking a tweet wondering why the KKK can’t have a library hour, tweeted by a guy who says “Christian nationalism” isn’t real. 16/38

Oh wait, here in this OANN interview, Willy says Christian nationalism IS real, normal, and that he’d like to see “all 330 million Americans” convert. facebook.com/watch/?v=64136… 17/38

The difference between Willy and your bog-standard Evangelical is, whereas the latter are mainly focused with homophobic and misogynist legislation, Willy wants all levers of government to promote “Anglo-Protestantism.” If you’re a Catholic Christian, tough shit. 18/38

To illustrate: someone like Russell Moore is majorly problematic, a defender of patriarchy and anti-abortion politics. But even he at least pays lip service to the notion of religious liberty, as in this article. Not Willy. baptistpress.com/resource-libra… 19/38

Unlike fellow SBC-er Moore, Willy heaps contempt on religious liberty, arguing that it doesn’t work in a “pluralistic” society and that it’s even responsible for capitulating on abortion. You’d be hard pressed to find a positive comment from Willy about religious freedom. 20/38

Willy puts freedom of conscience in *scare quotes* and thinks conservative Christians should stop being a “prophetic witness” - i.e., should enter the halls of power instead. He is an explicit authoritarian theofascist. 21/38

So Willy practices white Christian supremacism via politics. He also does it via his career as theologian and pastor. He’s pursuing an MDiv at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before that, he interned at Capitol Hill Baptist in DC–Mark Dever’s church, in Spring 2021. 22/38

During Spring 2021, Capitol Hill tried to secure a “COVID-immune section” in which vaccinated members would not have social distancing requirements. This plan would have endangered unvaccinated individuals at the church. dcist.com/story/21/04/17… 23/38

Willy’s choice of internship gives context to his tale of dramatic transformation after his alcohol addiction drove him to conversion. He writes about it here. issuu.com/covenant-colle… 24/38

In the article, he claims that conversion entailed rejecting the “works of the sinful nature.” Curious, because “jealousy” (of power), “fits of rage” (against the Left), “selfish ambition” (of white Christians) are all venerated by his movement, among others. 25/38

Willy strikes us as something of a dry drunk: sober, but channeling all his aggression, insecurity, and general antipathy towards the world into the promotion of Christian nationalist ideology, no matter who gets hurt. He’s still addicted, just to power and whiteness. 26/38

Willy is bent on disseminating his addictions throughout the church. Here he speculates that The Gospel Coalition showed “ethnic partiality” by . . . running a Black Christian’s lament about Kyle Rittenhouse, whom William apparently thinks was vindicated. 27/38

Willy also has something of a bromance with noted SBC racist Rett Copple too, whose tweet he quoted approvingly in the previous screenshot. Rett posted an apologia for “natural prejudice” - preferring your "people" - on MLK Day. These guys are normalizing Christian racism. 28/38

Some people might think that calling William a white supremacist goes too far. But what would YOU call someone who a) defends a murderer of pro-Black activists, b) defends white nationalist Michelle Malkin, c) thinks “Anglo-Protestantism” should dominate America? 29/38

(Willy’s very smart defense against this last point, evidenced in this like, is that “Anglo” doesn’t mean “white,” it just means “the culture and people of the British isles.” Oh, you mean just like Aryan only meant a *specific kind* of white. Nothing to see here, then!) 30/38

So what can you do? For starters, join @pastordmack in calling for Mohler to fire Wolfe. But beyond that:
a) Contact pastors at his current church, Hunsinger Lane Baptist in Louisville KY. Are they proud of his racism and contempt for Afghan lives?
(502) 491-4356 31/38

b) Put pressure on the Hunsinger Lane Baptist elders/deacons to clarify their position on Wolfe’s activities in federal government and in seminary. Elder Gary Milby is CEO of Contract Managed Services ( [phone]). hlbc.net/elders; linkedin.com/in/gary-milby-… 32/38

b cont’d) Meanwhile, elder Kip Selby is director of national operations for Cushman and Wakefield [phone]). People who frequent these businesses deserve to know if they’re patronizing white Christian nationalists. 33/38
linkedin.com/in/kip-selby-7…

B cont’d) If Selby and Milby don’t respond, everyone deserves to know about their silence and refusal to hold their own church member accountable for his harms. Publicize the association between these businesses and Christofascist-enabling Hunsinger Lane Baptist. 34/38

c) Hunsinger Lane pastor Sam Emadi is an author for Intervarsity Press. They published his book on Joseph’s captivity. Ask IVP whether he has authority on this subject when his most congregant supports oppressing the vulnerable just like Pharaoh. 35/38
ivpress.com/samuel-emadi

d) Put pressure on Metrolina Christian Academy, whose Alumni Board includes Willy, to explain their position on Willy’s complicity in bloodshed and white supremacy. Why should he get to influence the next generation? 36/38
metrolinachristian.org/alumni/alumni-…

e) Finally, you can email Willy the Wolfe himself. According to MCA’s Alumni Board page (link in last tweet), his email is william dot e dot wolfe at gmail dot com. Ask him directly what he had to do with DoD’s Afghanistan response and what he knows about J6. 37/38

Willy has the experience and indoctrination necessary to carry out the whims of a Christofascist government if he ever returns to DC. “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” /fin

p.s. Here's the tweet that Twitter hid, #32: "Put pressure on Hunsinger Lane Baptist elders/deacons to clarify position on Wolfe’s activities in federal gov't and in seminary. Elder Gary Milby is CEO of Contract Managed Services [phone]). hlbc.net/elders 32/38

*Here's the article explaining the Russian deterrence bill cnn.com/2019/12/19/pol…

*Here's the article explaining the Russian deterrence bill cnn.com/2019/12/19/pol…