This reminds me that the Wolfean Christian Nationalism project suffers from a deep internal contradiction of virtues. It markets itself as a retrieval project rooted in history while the actual tradition it claims to retrieve stresses due respect for elders and orderly humility under institutional authority. What we actually see is the opposite. A cavalier and individualistic dismissal of institutional authority, flippant dishonoring of our spiritual elders, and a hypocritical, whiny, victim mentality when critics push back. That isn't the posture of the tradition. The Reformed tradition is one of *reform*, not an anabaptist revolt from authority. What’s going on right now is a revolutionary/activism mentality fueled by acerbic disrespect for elders and institutions. Perhaps springing from insecurity, bitterness, pride, or something else, what’s clear is that they don’t respect the churches they seek to control. Young elders write their books and host their podcasts while tweeting contempt for the authorities over them and beside them. Sometimes even the very courts they are subject to. Anonymous activists build their websites and post all day on social media with little more than division and scandal as their goal. They loudly and proudly proclaim themselves to be the saviors of these godly institutions while, five minutes later, expressing their disdain for what they’re supposedly saving. Often with words laced with vile language. It's a movement aiming for deconstruction by conquest rather than reform by moral suasion and brotherly correction. It's the political theological equivalent of street protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at historical buildings and defacing monuments. It’s more anabaptist or Alinsky than magisterial reformer. Ironically, a project claiming to recover the past is functionally marked by modern traits, very much "in the spirit of the age." And when you begin to look closer, the old maxim “the medium is the message” becomes more and more true.