"A senior aide to Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, once worked for a far-right political consultancy that touts its capacity for “clandestine actions” and has links to a network of extremist groups and thinktanks, the Guardian can reveal."
"Parker Magid was recently appointed as Vance’s press secretary and his employment history links Vance and his circle to elements of the extremist right far outside the mainstream of American politics."
"Vance’s staffer links him to Beck & Stone (B&S) and its subsidiary political consultancy Knight Takes Rook (KTR). The brand consultancy with a business address in New York is close to Vance allies including the far-right Claremont Institute, the serial Arizona political candidate Blake Masters and the “counter-revolutionary” magazine IM–1776."
"JD Vance promoted far-right views in speech about extremists’ book"
"B&S was founded in 2014, according to statements by its founders, Andrew Beck and Austin Stone. Initial company filings in Florida date from April 2015. Its current Florida filings give an address that is a UPS store in New York City."
"Beck, also a Claremont co-founder, is closely involved with the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive invitation- and men-only fraternal lodge that has been the subject of extensive previous reporting in the Guardian."
"....... the politics represented by the group are “much more extreme than mainstream conservatism”.
"She explained there are two elements of that extremism: “their opinions on gender and the role women should have in society” and “their views on whether government should be democratic at all”.
"The link is just one of a series of connections between Vance and the so-called “new right”, an anti-democratic movement that attacks feminism, racial equality and immigrants while centering the grievances of white men. Those connections were dramatized in an April 2023 photo resurfaced last month in which Vance posed with the staff of New Founding, a B&S-aligned venture capital firm “for the right” that opposes what it calls “woke capital”.
"Beck, the B&S co-founder, posted on X that he had “created the brand identity, designed the mark, and crafted the website” for the shadowy Society for American Civic Renewal, the fraternal order that claims to be directed at “civilizational renewal”.
"In the same post he wrote: “I am a member.”
"The Guardian has reported extensively on SACR, including on the role of the retired soap manufacturer and would-be “warlord” Charles Haywood and the Boise State University professor Scott Yenor in founding the group; on internal documents that spelled out the group’s desire for influence and secrecy; and on its close links with the Claremont Institute, whose president, Ryan Williams, is an admitted board member of the group. Claremont’s 2021 tax filings record a $26,248 donation to SACR."
"TPM reported in June that SACR’s two Idaho chapters were formally dissolved but would continue as dues-paying organizations, which the outlet said “adds another layer of secrecy to the group”.
"The New York Times reported last month that SACR had “about 10 lodges in various states of development”, and that “key figures” in the Claremont-SACR nexus – including Williams, Beck and Claremont scholar Michael Anton – had moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in recent years."
"Last month, on the day that JD Vance was announced as Trump’s vice-presidential pick, a New Founding employee, Joshua Clemans, posted an undated photograph to X showing Vance clasping the shoulders of Fischer and the New Founding podcast co-host Santiago Pliego, flanked by other men in suits."
"Clemens captioned the photograph “Our guy”, invoking a code phrase originating on 4chan, which indicates an alignment with far-right political values."
"Along with his other activities, Fischer has published several articles in American Reformer, New Founding’s in-house journal."
"A third casts Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions last May in an apocalyptic light, telling readers:
“Legal appeals are necessary, but not sufficient. Electoral wins will be necessary, but not sufficient. In-kind reprisals will be necessary, but not sufficient. In a state of nature, differences are resolved by power.”www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/revealed-top-vance-aide-worked-for-far-right-consultancy-with-extremist-links/ar-AA1pAaLG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=u531&cvid=b1239490dd2c4318824873dcf162d67d&ei=10
