Not so fast. Catholic Nationalists have Peter Theil, JD Vance, five justices on SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, and many other inroads into the Christian Nationalist movement. They have been the brains and money behind the movement from the beginning during it's early Reagan years. They knew Catholicism was too fractured to provide any kind of powerful political base, but the Southern Baptist Convention was a different story. The Christian Nationalist story is along way from it's last chapter.
I believe it is that very fractured nature of Catholicism that will allow southern evangelicals to ultimately triumph in a final Sunni/Shiite style internecine struggle for post-liberal power.
Catholicism has swung to the right. Most of the Vatican II social justice Catholics are gone now. Catholics are now a rightwing political block with some muscle.
Look up Robert P. George. He's a radical and hugely influential right-wing Roman Catholic anti-gay and anti-abortion activist. He envisions an apartheid society along religious grounds in which gays would be lawfully prohibited from doing business with church-owned enterprises having purely secular missions. He's also on the faculty of Princeton University, making him damn near unassailable.
Nailed the Ross Douhat bit. JVL is always insightful and engaging, and when he adds humor to the mix there's no writer I'd rather read.
Douthat is a congenital sourpuss and scold. I don't imagine anyone wants to sit with him in the NYT's lunch room.
Yeah, the example is in no way absurdist where Douthat is concerned. He's an insufferable tool.
What amuses me about Douthat is that if the Christian Nationalists get their way, Catholics will have no place in the New Order.
Not so fast. Catholic Nationalists have Peter Theil, JD Vance, five justices on SCOTUS, the Federalist Society, and many other inroads into the Christian Nationalist movement. They have been the brains and money behind the movement from the beginning during it's early Reagan years. They knew Catholicism was too fractured to provide any kind of powerful political base, but the Southern Baptist Convention was a different story. The Christian Nationalist story is along way from it's last chapter.
I believe it is that very fractured nature of Catholicism that will allow southern evangelicals to ultimately triumph in a final Sunni/Shiite style internecine struggle for post-liberal power.
Catholicism has swung to the right. Most of the Vatican II social justice Catholics are gone now. Catholics are now a rightwing political block with some muscle.
Look up Robert P. George. He's a radical and hugely influential right-wing Roman Catholic anti-gay and anti-abortion activist. He envisions an apartheid society along religious grounds in which gays would be lawfully prohibited from doing business with church-owned enterprises having purely secular missions. He's also on the faculty of Princeton University, making him damn near unassailable.
George is just a peach of a Catholic and a lousy theologian.
The group of Catholics who claim the Pope is illegitimate—that there hasn't been a legitimate poke since Pius XII—will be quite welcome.