About those Nazis in Dearborn -
Okay, so most of you probably saw this post yesterday:
It generated a lot of attention. 380 comments (at time of writing), 90 upvotes. And 9 reports. One of the better reports (I appreciate it, sincerely) stated: "it should probably not be okay to assert something as serious as a nazi rally is associated w/ a particular group (Christian, in this instance) without also providing some kind of source or evidence for that serious claim."
This was a common question throughout the post. I decided this morning to sticky a comment with some context and evidence. But almost 24 hours is often too late for visibility, so I figured I'd made a new post to include those details.
Part one: Who is Jake Lang?
I've written about Lang before. He's a white nationalist provocateur. He first burst onto the scene on January 6th - he brought a baseball bat to the capital and assaulted people with it. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison before being pardoned by Trump in 2025. Since that time he's been involved with a whole bunch of stunts. He regularly burns the Quran at public demonstrations, or rubs bacon all over it. He held a "pro-white" rally in Texas where he called black people monsters. He attended a a city council meeting with Arab-American councilmembers so he could tell them: "Get the fuck out of my country. We don't want you here." He taunted black protestors, calling them "chimps". He threw nazi salutes, at one point saying "white Christian men are not gonna sit around while you turn our children into a bunch of n*gger lovers".
He was involved in a famous incident in Minneapolis where he ticked off a crowd of counter-protestors and they kicked his ass, until a black man intervened and rescued Lang from the crowd. Nonetheless, Lang is still a racist provocateur, a white nationalist. Most of his rallies center on Islam. He hates Muslims.
So he organized this rally. The Dearborn Crusader March. Dearborn gets a lot of attention from right wing media because it has a high Muslim population. This is not the first time Lang has targeted Dearborn. I shouldn't have to tell you what the language of "crusade" implies here. But here's what worries me: Lang had help.
Part two: Who is Lorenzo Sewell?
Lorenzo Sewell is a black pastor (his race is relevant here) in Detroit. He leads a church called 180 Church. A big part of Sewell's story is his own personal 180. He had a difficult upbringing, culminating in him being deeply involved with drug-dealing and gangs. He relates that one day as a young man, he had a Damascus Road type experience at his grandmother's church, and he turned his life around. So far so good.
Sewell's parish isn't some megachurch, mind you. I don't have exact numbers, but I would guess probably 300 members if this thing is at capacity. But Sewell does have moderate success online. He has 200k followers on his instagram, where he talks a lot about his support for Trump. He hosts a radio show called "Politics and Praise". He's been able to leverage all of this into some political presence. Trump visited 180 Church in 2024. Sewell was invited to speak at the RNC convention that took place a month later. Sewell was invited to deliver a benediction in 2025 for Trump's second inauguration. After speaking, Sewell announced a shitcoin ($Lorenzo) because of course he did. Loaves and fishes in 2026.
Sewell is pretty out there, listening to clips of his shows. He is staunchly MAGA, e.g. pushes stolen election stuff fairly constantly. But what he has in common with Lang is a strong aversion to Muslims and Islam. Why would a black preacher in Detroit who quoted MLK during his speech at the inauguration collaborate with a white nationalist who shouts things like ""white Christian men are not gonna sit around while you turn our children into a bunch of n*gger lovers"?
My first reaction is that it is 2026 and everything is now a parody of itself.
My second reaction is that, of course, they have a common enemy. They are willing to put race aside for the time being to recognize a common enemy. It really troubles me that a black pastor with this much of a platform hates Muslims enough that he's willing to collaborate with a white nationalist. There's no getting around it, Sewell is a gullible fool to whatever extent he is himself not just a hatemonger. It troubles me that Lang's brand is not toxic enough for this to damage Sewell's reputation within either the political realm or the Christian world. It troubles me that people are calling Lang a conservative activist, not a white nationalist provocateur.
Part three: Who are the guys in the picture?
Remember that hate is a spectrum. Lang is very far along on this spectrum. But there is always a bigger, more racist fish.
The guys in this picture are not associated with Lang. They actually showed up as counter-protestors. You see them in videos, they're outside the main crowd shouting their own incendiary things. People with Lang shout back at them. They are prominently standing in front of that Swastika, dressed like Nazis. I spent some time zooming in on that piece of paper the guy is holding. I can't quite make out what it says at the very top, I was hoping that would clue me in on whatever organization this is with. But the headline reads "Jake Lang is a Jew!"
Funnily enough, I banned someone in the original thread for this. The actual fact is true. Jake Lang was born and raised Jewish. He has subsequently disavowed his Jewishness, even pushed antisemitic memes. You might think it strange for some neo-nazi punk to be Jewish, but it wouldn't be the first time. But the reason that guy got banned isn't just recognizing that Lang was born Jewish, it was presenting this as some larger conspiracy that Lang is part of an OP coordinated by the Jews writ large. The guy I banned claimed that Lang was a Jewish operative trying to make Christians look bad. Please don't do that shit here, Jews are people just as much as anyone else and not every Jew is an agent of Mossad, ffs.
You need to understand that white nationalists are paranoid people. Not for no reason. They are associated with decades of bombings and murders, and constant plans to take out the power grid. The Feds have constantly infiltrated their ranks with informants (which is a good thing) and will continue to do so. This leads to some outlandish conjecture. Nazis are constantly playing a stupid version of Amongus, accusing one another of being the infiltrator. Its easy to wonder that here. Are these guys plants by Jake Lang to get attention and make himself look good? Was he trying to insinuate that Palestinian protestors are Nazis? I don't think any of that is likely. These guys have their own literature and, frankly, there is enough infighting in the Nazi world we don't have to invent a more juicy narrative. They resent Lang because they are a brand of Nazi that hates Jews more than Muslims, whereas Lang is a brand of Nazi that hates Muslims more than Jews. I want to say they deserve each other - but no, they deserve a worldview that isn't contentiously hateful and divisive and I hope each and every one of them finds their way out of that cycle of hate.
So to wrap this up, these guys are not with Lang, but they are the same spectrum as Lang. They are just as symptomatic and worrisome as Lang is himself. This is what a Christian "crusade" looks like in 2026.
What a disgrace to our witness. God have mercy on these fools.
