Fruit of The Post-War Consensus Today
The Woke Right narrative keeps the progressive trap intact
In this piece, I want to draw a sharp line between two very different explanations of the Post-War Consensus.1
Josiah Sanchez’s The Post-War Consensus: A Religious Tenet exposes the PWC as a living civil religion — a myth that redefines America’s identity and moral purpose in sacred terms.
Ben Crenshaw’s American Reformer article, on the other hand, treats the PWC mainly as a geopolitical framework and technocratic system to be checked by realist statecraft.
These two views might appear to overlap, but they reveal two radically different diagnoses, and two very different answers to the question of what must be uprooted if the West is to repent and stand on truth again.
Ben R. Crenshaw’s deep dive at American Reformer sounds like an intellectual kill shot on the globalist machine: he exposes how the Post-War Consensus (PWC) and the Liberal International Order (LIO) gutted true national sovereignty, replaced real diplomacy with elite managerial governance, and morally blackmailed the West into open borders, endless wars, and moral self-hatred — all under the halo of WWII’s sacred mythos.
He’s not wrong about the mechanics. He’s wrong about the cure.
Josiah Sanchez’s The Post-War Consensus: A Religious Tenet stands in stark contrast to Crenshaw’s long institutional analysis: where Crenshaw treats the PWC mainly as a global managerial system to be restrained by realist politics, Sanchez exposes it as a mythic civil religion that lives inside the American mind — an unwritten creed that turns WWII into a sacred story and binds even Christians to a counterfeit gospel of national redemption. While Crenshaw dissects the machine, Sanchez unmasks the idol.
Sanchez’s PWC:
Primarily described as America’s civil religion.
It is a mythic ideological framework, casting WWII as a sacred story: America the redeemer nation defeats ultimate evil (Hitler) and fulfills its founding promise of freedom and equality.
The PWC serves as a religious tenet for American Christians without them realizing it, an unwritten creed taught in schools, reinforced by collective memory, and guarded by moral outrage when questioned.
It explains why “friendly fire” happens on the right: the mythos of WWII is so sacred it provokes the same visceral defense as core Christian doctrines.
The real focus is internal social cohesion and identity formation and how Americans see themselves, not mainly about global structures.
The Real Trap
American Reformer Crenshaw’s big tell?
He preaches Vattel, Schmitt, Wilson, and Westphalia, but never preaches Christ.
He shows how the PWC replaced the old Law of Nations but never shows how that Law only ever worked when nations knew they were under God.
He rails against “endless moral crusades abroad” but never rebukes the false gospel that turned WWII into America’s second atonement.
He exposes the Israel double standard, but never touches the root: dispensational Zionism turned churches into lobbying wings for a secular ethnostate, not loyal to the Kingdom of Christ.
What’s Meant by - WWII became “America’s second atonement.”
The American civil religion replaced the cross of Christ with the myth of the Redeemer Nation — twice.
First “atonement” — the Civil War:
In America’s civic myth, slavery was the original sin.
The Civil War was preached as the nation’s blood sacrifice to wash that sin away.
Lincoln is the Christ figure, shot dead, “dying for the union.”
This is why people speak of “unfinished work,” “the new birth of freedom,” “the better angels of our nature.” It’s biblical language repurposed for national redemption.
Second “atonement” — WWII:
By the early 20th century, the myth needed a universal moral war to redeem not just America but the entire modern West.
Hitler became the stand-in for absolute evil, the Devil incarnate.
The defeat of Nazi Germany became the secular exorcism.
Americans were taught: We saved the world from evil; our sins are absolved because we crushed fascism.
The Holocaust became a civic passion narrative, not about the Jewish Messiah, but about the American savior state.
In this myth, American bombs and American blood did what the cross does in true Christianity: purged guilt, granted moral righteousness, and crowned America as global moral guardian.
✝️ “Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” (Hebrews 9:22) but only the blood of Christ, not the blood of soldiers.
WWII in the civil myth replaces the Lamb of God with the “Greatest Generation.”
It rebrands just war (sometimes defensible in a fallen world) as holy war.
And it rebrands foreign conquest and moral policing as the gospel in action — “making the world safe for democracy.”
So when Crenshaw calls out interventionism, democracy crusades, the CIA, the blob, but never names the false gospel underneath he’s only trimming branches, never striking the root.
What would rebuking it look like?
A real Christian critique would say:
WWII was a real war in a fallen world — but it did not absolve America’s sins.
Our fathers’ courage deserves respect, but not worship.
The blood of Normandy does not sanctify the empire that rose afterward.
Christ alone is King, Judge, and Redeemer, not the Pentagon, not the UN, not the Red, White, and Blue.
Why does this matter now?
Because the same myth is still weaponized:
“Never again!” means endless wars to “stop new Hitlers.”
“Democracy is always right.” 2
“Anti-Nazi” means any nationalist must be crushed.
“Israel is sacred, and you’re Hitler if you disagree.”
If you don’t tear down the second atonement myth, you can’t stop the empire from using it as cover for new crusades, new surveillance, new moral blackmail.
Crenshaw shows the mechanics — the tanks, treaties, and think tanks.
But the false gospel underneath is what gives the machine its moral license to operate.
If that’s left untouched?
The trap stays shut.
The Net Result
What’s the reader left with?
A civilizational pep talk. A nationalist realism. A call to “return” to an old liberal order that failed precisely because it was rootless.
It’s the same woke right shuffle:
1️⃣ Expose the corruption.
2️⃣ Lament the decay.
3️⃣ Offer “realism” without repentance.
4️⃣ Keep your faith in human tradition — not the risen King.
The Hard Truth
The Post-War Consensus is not just an economic scam or foreign policy trick, it’s a civil religion that replaced Christ with the “Redeemer Nation.”
It’s a counterfeit kingdom that merged moral blackmail, global surveillance, mass migration, and unconditional Zionism into a single, unstoppable narrative: question this myth, and you’re Hitler.
The only antidote is the real gospel, Christ as King of Kings, the One who judges nations, not Vattel or Schmitt or polite “Law of Nations” nostalgia.
The Woke Right sells you a barnburner critique but locks you in the same barn.
Expose the machine. Name the real King. Preach repentance. Or you’ll fight Babel with Babel’s tools and lose.
How Did We Get Here?
Recall one such linchpin: George Brock Chisholm (1896–1971). Chisholm was a Canadian psychiatrist and the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO, 1948–1953). A decorated WWI veteran turned psychiatrist, he became famous for his radical public statements about “mental hygiene” and “world citizenship.”
What did Chisholm argue?
Chisholm was one of the chief architects of modern mental health policy as a global governance tool. His core belief was that traditional moral categories, good vs. evil, were the source of mental illness and war.
Key Chisholm Quotes:
"If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility. This is a challenge which must be met."
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.”
“The reinterpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives…” (Psychiatry, 1946)
So in plain terms:
Chisholm declared that Christian moral categories were the disease.
Psychiatry must become the new priesthood to liberate mankind from guilt, sin, and absolute moral truth.
Once the idea of sin is gone, people can be “reconditioned” into world citizens who live by collective therapeutic norms, not biblical commands.
Psychiatry is known to be a preferred weapon of the ruling class, a tool to medicalize dissent, erase moral truth, and train populations to submit to expert control.
Why does this matter now?
Chisholm’s worldview is the skeleton key for understanding:
The WHO’s pivot from basic health to mental health as a global governance lever.
The link from postwar psychiatry to the rise of SEL (Social Emotional Learning) in schools: emotions replace conscience; well-being replaces sanctification.
The fusion of mental health policy with UN Sustainable Development Goals, psychological salvation instead of spiritual salvation.
The direct line from Chisholm to the therapeutic state, the state that polices “extremism,” “hate,” or “disinformation” as mental pathologies.
The root of today’s woke inversion: with no objective right and wrong, “sin” is recoded as “harm” or “trauma,” and evil becomes pathology that requires treatment by credentialed priests.
Why this pairs with the “Second Atonement” idea
Chisholm’s mission to erase good and evil internally (in the soul) is the perfect twin to the PWC’s mission to declare WWII the final atonement externally (in the nation’s mythos).
Externally: America’s sins are covered by sacrificial wars for democracy and human rights.
Internally: Your personal sin is denied altogether; instead, you’re treated by therapeutic managers who promise to “heal” you of moral judgment.
Chisholm is one of the ghosts in the machine:
He disarmed Christian civilization by nuking the category of sin.
He gave the postwar global regime its new psychological priesthood to manage mankind.
He replaced the biblical command to repent with the secular command to adjust the core of modern SEL, DEI, and mental health governance.
Be watchful. The same deception Brock Chisholm championed at the WHO calling Christian moral categories the disease and psychiatry the new priesthood has infected nearly every sector: education, media, governance, even the church. Its goal is always the same: to erase the reality of sin, dissolve your need for Christ’s atoning blood, and recondition you as a compliant “world citizen” who lives by therapeutic norms instead of God’s commands.
Don’t be fooled when this spirit wears a “conservative” mask. Operations like American Reformer talk tough about globalism but quietly drain the Gospel of its power, offering civilizational pep talks and half-truths that leave you trusting man’s kingdoms instead of Christ’s eternal reign.
Taken together, these two articles show us what’s really at stake. Sanchez’s piece reminds us that the Post-War Consensus is not just foreign policy, it’s a false gospel woven into America’s self-image, turning WWII into a secular atonement that still binds the conscience of a nation.
The Target. Western Civilization. The Tactic? Conditioning You to Hate it.
Hey people of Western civilization!
Crenshaw’s institutional exposé correctly maps the machinery but stops short of naming the deeper spiritual infection, and worse, repackages the problem in safe, secular terms that only keep people circling the same dead end.
American Reformer postures as a defender of Christian principle while quietly diverting dissent back into controlled channels.3
In an age of clever counterfeits, we can’t afford to trade one false savior for another. Christ alone atones for sin, not the state, not the nation, not the next so-called consensus.
The Holy Spirit, the War of Words, and the Only Narrative That Saves
The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God. (2 Corinthians 10:4–5)
Guard your mind. Test every voice. Hold fast to the truth: Only the cross destroys sin. Only Christ redeems sinners. Only His Kingdom sets you free.
Because the real consensus is that every knee will bow, not to NATO, not to the UN, not to the blob, but to Jesus Christ, Lord of all.
Soli Deo Glora
Summer Black
Man Will Not Unify The Earth, God Will Remake It.
A central warning from the Lord Himself. The first and most prominent sign of the end, according to Jesus, is not war, famine, or plague- but massive global deception.
When did the WWII consensus start?
The Post-War Consensus as an ideological and policy framework really took shape during and immediately after WWII, but its cultural cementing happened in stages:
During WWII (1941–1945): The Atlantic Charter (1941) and Allied conferences (Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam) laid the formal groundwork for postwar global cooperation and the new “rules-based order.”
1945–1949: The Nuremberg Trials, the founding of the UN, the Marshall Plan (1947), NATO (1949), and the early Cold War solidified the PWC as both foreign policy (containment, global liberal order) and cultural myth (America as redeemer nation defeating fascism).
Domestically: The WWII mythos took root in American schools and civic culture during the late 1940s into the 1950s, especially as the Civil Rights Movement invoked WWII’s “good vs. evil” moral framework as part of its narrative for extending equality at home.
So, historically, the Post-War Consensus began to congeal in 1945, but its civil religion dimension was fully forged in the late 1940s through the 1950s, becoming unquestionable dogma by the postwar baby boom generation.
United Nations:
The United Nations was officially founded on October 24, 1945, when the UN Charter drafted at the San Francisco Conference in April–June 1945 came into force after being ratified by the major Allied powers.
Modern socialist and progressive movements have quietly redefined “democracy” - no longer the consensus of self-governing individuals, but the manufactured consensus of expert-run institutions that claim to speak on the people’s behalf. Said another way, modern managerial elites, including socialist and communist movements operating under democratic labels, shifted the meaning of “democracy” away from the self-governing individual citizen to the collective consensus of expert-run institutions, technocrats, and administrative bureaucracies.
James Lindsay famously exposed American Reformer as a prime example of the "woke right" in a well-known stunt:
In late 2024, Lindsay (under the pseudonym Marcus Carlson) submitted a rewritten excerpt of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto to American Reformer. He cleverly replaced class-based terms like proletariat with the Christian Right and bourgeoisie with liberalism. To his surprise (and strategic delight), American Reformer published it, even after readers pointed out the hoax, calling it “a reasonable aggregation of some New Right ideas” https://reason.com/2025/06/11/the-rise-of-the-woke-right/
Lindsay's experiment demonstrated that American Reformer was not defending solid conservative principles, it was recycling the same identity-based, grievance-driven, collectivist framework that he had critiqued on the left, now dressed in right-wing clothes.
Why This Matters
It proves that American Reformer isn’t a bulwark of traditional conservatism or Christian ethics and morality, it’s a woke-right echo chamber that amplifies the same victim-based, identity politics once associated with the left.
It warns that critiques of globalism or the Post-War Consensus coming from this outlet may be packaged in dangerous leftist structures, just cloaked in right-wing language.
It sharpens your discernment: the woke right doesn’t oppose collectivism, it merely rebrands it. So don’t mistake American Reformer for a genuine Christian alternative.
In short: Lindsay’s hoax was not a prank, it was a live diagnostic. American Reformer passed the test, not by rejecting collectivism, but by welcoming it under a new guise.
Josiah Sanchez, The Post-War Consensus: A Religious Tenet (2024).
Ben R. Crenshaw, “Exposing the Liberal International Order,” American Reformer, 2024.
James Corbett, Dissent Into Madness: The Weaponization of Psychology (Corbett Report).
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, trans. Samuel Moore (London: Penguin Classics, 1967).
James Lindsay [as Marcus Carlson], “A Christian Manifesto for the New Right,” American Reformer, published and retracted, 2024.
John Stossel, “The Rise of the Woke Right: Some Conservatives Are Embracing the Very Trends They Once Mocked—Including Victimhood, Cancel Culture, and Even Struggle Sessions,” Reason, June 2025.
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