Braeden Sorbo is following in the footsteps of his parents, conservative actors and activists Kevin and Sam Sorbo, by seeking to establish a career as a right-wing commentator.
While his parents have aligned themselves with the MAGA-aligned religious-right movement, Braeden has chosen to affiliate himself with the more extreme antisemitic, misogynistic, and white nationalist sphere of the "alt-right" movement, which is evidenced by the fact that he serves as a commentator on Elijah Schaffer's Rift TV platform and why his own social media accounts are filled with Holocaust denial, overt racism, and misogyny.
Despite this, Sorbo is being heralded by Christian nationalist groups like the National Association of Christian Lawmakers and the Truth and Liberty Coalition as an important voice for and legitimate representative of young right-wing activists.
For example, Richard Harris of the Truth and Liberty Commission conducted a recent podcast interview that Sorbo, giving him a platform to expound on his views on feminism.
Harris may not have done his research, because he seemed surprised when Sorbo asserted that women shouldn’t have the right to vote and that giving women that right had led to the “downfall” of America.
"I know more young women today who say they wish they didn't ever get the right to vote than I've ever talked to in my life," Sorbo said. "They go, 'Well, if I never had this, then everything throughout the history with abortion and feminism and all of these things wouldn't have taken place and so I would much rather give up my one right to vote if it meant 10,000 liberal women wouldn't be allowed to vote so that we could return our country to a better place.'"
"What we did was we tricked thousands and thousands and thousands of people into thinking that [patriarchy] was oppression and we're reaping what we sow," he continued. "You can look at everything that's going on—not even just in America, but in the West today—and we can see the decline, the moral degradation, and the societal downfall that is taking place, and we can go, 'This is bad objectively.'"
"Wow," replied Harris. "So, Braeden, are you saying women shouldn't have the right to vote?"
"Yes," Sorbo responded.
"Wow," Harris repeated.
"My stance is a voting system based on Christian morals, which relates to married couples having one joint vote," Sorbo stated. "It's not, 'Oh, women shouldn't vote,' it's that women should vote with their husbands and husbands with their wives. It is this idea that we should be working together because what happened is when we pit the genders against each other, the battle of the sexes, we split everything apart. We took the children out of the home and put them in the government school systems. You put the wife against her husband and the husband against his wife and that is what led to the downfall of America."
When Harris asked Sorbo what happens to "single women and single men" under such a system, Sorbo declared that "they don't vote" ... unless they are "nuns and priests and celibate religious folk."
"When it comes to Americans, we want people to be invested in the future of the country and so the only way we are going to do that is if they have a stake in it" Sorbo said. "And so even better would be married and owns land, or at least rents a piece of property because if you are participating in society, you are more likely to vote selflessly than selfishly."
Sorbo’s appearance on Harris’s show is a sign of the increasingly aggressive Christian nationalism of the religious-right movement, as well as the blurring or erasure of lines that separate it from the more extreme patriarchal, white nationalist, and antisemitic fringes of the movement.