Iorga's views were in part responsible for a split taking place at "Gândirea", occurring when his traditionalist disciple, Nichifor Crainic, became the group's new leader and marginalized the Expressionists. Crainic, who was also a poet with "Sămănătorist" tastes, was held in esteem by Iorga, whose publications described him and his disciples as the better half of "Gândirea". Iorga was also the subject of a "Gândirea" special issue, being recognized as a forerunner (a title he shared with Octavian Goga and Vasile Pârvan). There was however a major incompatibility between the two traditionalist tendencies: to Iorga's secularism, Crainic opposed a quasi-theocratic vision, based on the Romanian Orthodox Church as a guarantee of Romanian identity. Crainic saw his own theory as an afterthought of "Sămănătorism", arguing that his "Gândirism" had erected an "azure tarpaulin", symbolizing the Church, over Iorga's nationalism.