[USA HERALD] – This investigation examines whether a documented ideological and professional chain creates a link—direct or indirect—between Turning Point USA and Satanic philosophy through the psychological warfare doctrine of “Mind War” co-authored by a U.S. Army general and an avowed Satanist. The focus here is not theology for its own sake, but whether concepts explicitly articulated by a Satanist as tools of influence and domination later appear, unexamined or unrepudiated, within modern political activism.
At the center of the inquiry is Paul E. Vallely, a retired U.S. Army major general and former senior military analyst for Fox News. He leads the conservative political group Stand Up America US and previously served in a leadership role with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, where he sat on the organization’s advisory board.
In 1980, Vallely co-authored Mind War with Michael A. Aquino Jr., an American political scientist, U.S. Army intelligence officer, and the founder and high priest of the Temple of Set. Aquino’s Satanism was not incidental or symbolic; it was public, explicit, and central to his worldview.
