Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., at an election night partyAlex Brandon/AP

On monday, THE New York Times reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., has accepted a job at an investment firm called 1789 Capital. The Times described the firm as focused on “products and companies aimed at a conservative audience”. Indeed, the firm funds the media company of right-wing TV host Tucker Carlson. And its website is full of right-wing dog whistles: it advocates “anti-ESG” and “de-globalization” and strongly opposes “excessive bureaucracy”.

These values ​​are pretty standard conservative fare, but 1789 Capital also has deep ties to a more extreme faction of conservatism: TheoBrosa group of mostly millennial, hard-line conservatives, many of whom identify as Christian nationalists. The founder of 1789 Capital is Chris Buskirk, who, as Bucks County Beaconthis is jennifer cohn reportedonce served as editor and publisher of American reformerthe unofficial publication of TheoBros. In the digital pages of American reformerhave TheoBro collaborators fanboyed on the authoritarian Spanish leader Francisco Franco, appointed Uganda’s criminalization of homosexuality “legitimate civil policy” and declared that The United States should not be “a nation of immigrants.”

Don Jr., who is as online as TheoBros, albeit without the fire and brimstone, currently serves as an administrator and executive vice president of the Trump Organization. He is not the first person in Trump’s orbit to be connected to Buskirk. JD Vance crossed paths with Buskirk in the Rockbridge Network, a group of powerful Republican donors including Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel.

The firm’s name likely refers to the year 1789, when the US Constitution was drafted, and as TheoBro patriarch Doug Wilson explains in a blog post on Christian nationalism, “The Declaration recognized that our rights are inalienable precisely because they were granted to us by Creative.” Other directors of Capital 1789 include Rebekah Mercer, a powerful conservative donor whose father founded voter research firm Cambridge Analytica and Trump fundraiser Omeed Malik. Like NewsTRACS’ Wendy Siegelman reportedin 2023, Malik’s investment company acquired Public Square, a business hub that it says “empowers like-minded patriots to discover and support companies in a wide variety of industries that share their values.”

In addition to his new concert, the Times Don Jr. will likely play a role in his father’s political operation.