Charlie Kirk was murdered in Utah by a non-active Mormon. Shocking comments like this one by Pastor Mark Driscoll were made about the Mormon shooter, his family, and Mormons in general.
While at the same time, at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, Dr. Ben Carson highlighted the work of a prominent Mormon as the hero of the political right.
Carson breaks down the Marxist playbook, which he claims has been plaguing the country since the 1950s…
“There’s a man named Cleon Skousen (a famous Mormon), he says, “who wrote a book called The Naked Communist in the 50s…”
A conspiracy theory book that predicts a dire future of American communists (i.e., the political left) gaining control over the public education system and the teachers’ unions so they can infiltrate and indoctrinate young people.
“It was a leftist who said, Give me your children to teach for four years, and I will never be uprooted. They want to make sexual perversion natural and healthy, and push God out of our society.”
etc.
Pastor Mark Driscoll on Mormons
So it was the demonic Mormons that created the Charlie Kirk shooter and the heroic Mormons that helped create far-right politics.
My Mormon father loved Cleon Skousen, and as I grew up, his videos were often played in our home, with my father’s rapt attention.
Other people’s opinions differed…
Ben Carson’s Love Affair With a “Nutjob” Conspiracy Theorist
A top GOP presidential contender has embraced the dark, paranoid, and crazy worldview of a far-right pseudohistorian.
- David Corn
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“The thing that is probably most important is having a brain.” But Carson has provided one important clue as to his fundamental political worldview by repeatedly endorsing a far-right conspiracy theorist named W. Cleon Skousen (A Mormon), who was characterized in 2007 by the conservative National Review as an “all-around nutjob.” Skousen came to prominence in the 1950s as a virulent anti-Communist crusader; he later claimed that a global cabal of bankers controlled the world from behind the scenes, and he once wrote a book that referred to the “blessings of slavery.”
Carson swears by Skousen, who died in 2006. In a July 2014 interview, Carson contended that Marxist forces had been using liberals and the mainstream media to undermine the United States. His source: Skousen. “There is a book called The Naked Communist,” he said. “It was written in 1958. Cleon Skousen lays out the whole agenda, including the importance of getting people into important positions in the mainstream media so they can help drive the agenda. Well, that’s what’s going on now.” Four months later, while being interviewed by Megyn Kelly on Fox News, Carson denounced unnamed Marxists who were presently seeking to destroy American society: “There was a guy who was a former CIA agent by the name of Cleon Skousen who wrote a book in 1958 called The Naked Communist, and it laid out the whole agenda. You would think by reading it that it was written last year—showing what they’re trying to do to American families, what they’re trying to do to our Judeo-Christian faith, what they’re doing to morality.” (Skousen had been an FBI employee—not a CIA officer—and mainly engaged in administrative and clerical duties; later he was a professor at Brigham Young University and police chief of Salt Lake City.) And the most recent edition of this Skousen book boasts Carson’s endorsement on the front cover: “The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan. It is unbelievable how fast it has been achieved.”
Skousen’s book was a hyperbolic, far-from-sophisticated Cold War denunciation of communism and the Soviet Union. Marx, Skousen claimed, had set out “to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.” And in McCarthy-esque fashion, Skousen contended that “agents of communism” had “penetrated every echelon of American society—including some of the highest offices of the United States Government.” He insisted that many “loyal Americans” had been duped by Communists into doing the Reds’ dirty work because “they are not aware that these objectives are designed to destroy us.” Thus, these fellow travelers and naive citizens were part of a “campaign to soften America for the final takeover.”
A utopia or a dystopia? 
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