Chuck Darwin<p>What sets SACR apart is that its members come from and are recruited from the upper crust of American society. </p><p>They are wealthy — independent wealth is a requirement for membership, per documents TPM obtained. And they are credentialed. </p><p>SACR offers a redoubt for powerful people who take the culture war extremely seriously and believe in their bones that hemorrhaging church membership, the Obergefell decision on same-sex marriage, and the ebbing status of Christian men in American society are an existential threat to their vision for America, and who have the means to build a society on a different path. </p><p>Organized as a 501(c)10, Williams described SACR as analogous in structure to the Masons or Moose lodges<br> — a national superstructure with chapters around the country, some public and some not. </p><p>Its members are, as a rule, secret. But those members who have incorporated chapters, as TPM discovered, end up identified in public records. </p><p>In an interview, Williams told TPM that SACR emerged from conversations between himself, self-described “industrialist” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Charles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Charles</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Haywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haywood</span></a>, and others around Claremont in 2020. </p><p>Skyler Kressin, an Idaho accountant, and Fischer, also participated. </p><p>The idea, Williams said, came about amid conversations about “civic projects and constitutionalism and the state of America.” </p><p>“Part of the scholarly project of the Claremont Institute has been to lament the rise, really since the late 19th century, of a certain different way of thinking about politics and how to do government outside, we would argue, the American constitutional tradition,” he said.</p><p>Haywood, a University of Chicago-educated attorney, incorporated SACR and sits on its board. He did not respond to requests for comment from TPM.</p><p>Haywood has laid out an elaborate cosmology of America’s place in time, and his own place in America, through hundreds of blog posts he’s written on his website,<br>The Worthy House. </p><p>To Haywood, American government is a house of cards waiting to be blown over <br>— run by a cabal that he describes as the “brawndo tyranny,” referring to the energy drink from the 2006 cult classic movie Idiocracy. </p><p>Haywood says he can see what will likely come next: <br>a new <a href="https://c.im/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a>, <br>an archipelago of local “<a href="https://c.im/tags/armed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>armed</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/patronage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patronage</span></a> networks,” <br>a vision inspired by the groups white 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