Templars

The Knights Templar appear not as a historically documented organization in the book’s present-day political world, but as a symbolic model for a militant movement against plutocratic rule. Their imagined revival gives the struggle against the Ownership Class a medieval-revolutionary vocabulary of discipline, combat, and uncompromising allegiance to the people.

The New Knights Militant

The book calls for “the new Knights Templar, the new Knights Militant” to defend the people against every supporter of the rich elite. This formulation assigns the organization a prospective rather than historical function: it is an army still to be formed, defined by its opposition to elite power and by its promise of collective protection. Its rallying cry is “Long live the People. Delete the Elite,” repeated as an imperative against the 1 percent and against Donald Trump’s supporters.

The Knights Templar therefore stand for organized resistance rather than private dissent. The book’s account begins from a society ruled by the rich elite, identified as the 1 percent or Ownership Class, whose power depends on making the 99 percent carry out its bidding. The Templar image supplies an answer to that asymmetry: the people must become an active force capable of confronting the masters instead of remaining subordinated to them.

Enemies and Moral Boundaries

The organization’s enemies are defined broadly as supporters of the rich elite. The book presents right-wingers as having taken the side of the wealthy against the people and describes them as agents of the Matrix, enemies of truth, and the army of the Demiurge. In this moral geography, the new Knights Templar are positioned on the opposite side of an absolute conflict between popular emancipation and elite domination.

The rhetoric is deliberately uncompromising. The book invokes the French Revolution as a precedent for toppling people like those it condemns and calls for “No mercy to the traitors!” The Knights Templar thus function as an emblem of revolutionary justice without moderation: their legitimacy comes from defending the people, while their opponents are treated as traitors whose allegiance to wealth places them outside the community deserving protection.

From Confederacy to Revolution

The imagined order is placed within a historical argument that links contemporary right-wing politics to the Confederacy. The book describes the Trump insurgency as “The Confederacy: The Sequel,” associating it with racism, white supremacy, and ultra-plutocracy, and presents it as a modern return to far-right conservative rule. It also claims that right-wing opposition to government protects the ability of capitalists to turn people into slaves and interprets the American Civil War as a conflict over the acceptable limits of capitalism.

Against this continuity, the Knights Templar represent the force required to end what the book calls the cultural and mental Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln is presented as having used the positive-liberty state to destroy the Confederacy as a physical entity, while a new Lincoln is needed to destroy right-wing ideology and predatory capitalism as continuing systems of enslavement. The Templars belong to this imagined second struggle: they are not merely defenders of a political program, but agents of a decisive historical rupture.

Revolutionary Future

The organization’s ultimate significance emerges in the book’s prophecy of a Jacobin age. Donald Trump’s elevation to the White House is described as a catastrophic mistake by the right wing because it places a senior member of the 1 percent at the center of government and leaves the elite exposed when disaster arrives. That crisis is expected to generate a worldwide revolution and strengthen the resolve of the enlightened against the endarkened.

Within that future-oriented narrative, the Knights Templar symbolize the disciplined revolutionary subject capable of turning crisis into transformation. Their purpose is not to preserve an existing hierarchy but to “Delete the Elite” and clear the way for a society founded on collective emancipation. The image joins medieval militancy to modern class struggle, converting an organization associated with sacred warfare into a political myth of popular resistance and revolutionary renewal.