Vice President JD Vance poses with Blaze TV host Steve Deace<\/span>Steve Deace, X<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Steve Deace, the <\/span>host of an eponymous <\/strong>show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens<\/a> and LGBTQ people<\/a> and ranting<\/a> that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. Those comments fit right in with those of the <\/strong>some of the <\/strong>guests his show hosts, who regularly dabble in antisemitism<\/a> and argue<\/a> that women shouldn\u2019t be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n But just this week, Deace\u2019s track record of extremist rhetoric and guests did not stop Vice President JD Vance from posing for a photo<\/a> with him. The circumstances of the picture were unclear; Deace posted it on X with the comment, \u201cHad to make a quick stop by the West Wing this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n Deace<\/span>\u2018s track record of extremist rhetoric did not stop the vice president. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n The extremism watchdog group <\/strong>Right Wing Watch<\/em> has helpfully rounded up<\/a> some of Deace\u2019s most colorful and violent statements from his last decade-plus of broadcasting. In February, he announced<\/a> his intention to \u201cpunch Pride Month right in the balls. Hard.\u201d In 2023, he called for<\/a> the execution of drag queens, saying \u201cpedo-groomers should be executed, by the way. After a fair trial, of course.\u201d In 2022, he called<\/a> the Democratic Party \u201ca demonic construct, a satanically-influenced entity, and a death cult\u201d and asserted that Democrats were \u201cvoting for dudes teabagging their hairy sacks on children at public libraries and public schools.\u201d In 2020, he said<\/a>, \u201cI want to see antifa members hanging from gallows in Trump ties. That\u2019s what I would like to see.\u201d<\/p>\n Deace\u2019s regular guests include the TheoBros<\/a>, members of a network of mostly millennial, ultra-conservative men, many of whom proudly call themselves Christian nationalists. Among the tenets of their tributary of Reformed Protestant Christianity is the idea that the United States should be subject to biblical law. Joel Webbon, a Texas TheoBro pastor who believes<\/a> the 19th amendment should be repealed and regularly posts about his conviction that Judaism is evil<\/a>, has appeared on Deace\u2019s show several times. In a March episode<\/a>, Webbon explained that his antisemitic statements were justified because the Bible called for \u201chating the enemies of God.\u201d He added, \u201cI do not hate Jews, I wish them a very pleasant conversion to Christianity.\u201d In an August 2024 episode<\/a>, Webbon told Deace that he was an abortion \u201cabolitionist<\/a>,\u201d which is to say that abortion should be penalized as murder.<\/p>\n Another regular guest is Doug Wilson, a Moscow, Idaho, pastor and the patriarch of the TheoBro movement. In the past, Wilson has argued<\/a> that the master-slave dynamic was \u201ca relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence\u201d and called male dominance over women \u201can erotic necessity.\u201d On a Deace episode<\/a> last July, Wilson mourned the loss of unapologetically Christian nations, including the United States. In January<\/a>, Wilson told Deace he believed that senators questioning US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth were putting him in the \u201clonghouse,\u201d a reference to a rightwing internet meme about how modern social norms emasculate men. \u201cThe only thing worse than the patriarchy will be the matriarchy, I can promise you that!\u201d quipped Deace. Wilson giggled appreciatively. (Hegseth, too, has strong ties<\/a> to the TheoBros world.)<\/p>\n The photo with Deace isn\u2019t the first time Vance has dipped a toe into the world of the TheoBros. As I wrote<\/a> last year:<\/p>\n Bucks County Beacon<\/em>\u00a0reporter Jennifer Cohn\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0venture capitalist Chris Buskirk was listed as the editor and publisher of TheoBro online magazine\u00a0American Reformer<\/em>. (The publication\u2019s cofounder, Nate Fischer, later clarified to Mother Jones<\/em> that Buskirk\u2019s listing in the filing had been a clerical error, and that he was actually a board member of\u00a0American Reformer<\/em>.) In 2022, Buskirk\u00a0co-founded<\/a>\u00a0the Rockbridge Network, a collection of powerful Trump donors including Catholic judicial kingmaker Leonard Leo and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. Another co-founder of the Rockbridge Network? None other than JD Vance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Cohn also surfaced<\/a> this photo of Vance posing with a bunch of TheoBros in 2023. <\/p>\n Vance isn\u2019t the only politician hobnobbing with Deace. Last month, Deace devoted an entire episode<\/a> of his show to an interview with TheoBro and Republican Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deevers, who has said<\/a> he believes America should be a Christian nation and wants to end<\/a> no-fault divorce. <\/p>\n Deevers told Deace that he hoped more Christians would soon be in public office, explaining that politicians \u201ccan actually be strong convictional Christians,\u201d Deevers went on, who <\/strong>\u201clead according to the scriptures, and not be in violation of God\u2019s word, and actually stand before him on Judgment Day and [have] him still say, \u2018Well done, good and faithful servant.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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