Many Irish Catholics are drawn to the disruptive energies of Trumpism as they engage in what they see as a ‘spiritual war’ against liberalism
JD Vance and Donald Trump: In a climate of populist disruption, radicalised Catholics are happily describing themselves as the 'red-pilled laity' who have seen the light about the corruptions of liberalism. Photograph: Doug Mills/New York Timescasts a spotlight on a growing faction of the religious right in the United States – post-liberal Catholics.
The long Catholic march into the establishment has also seen a shift away from the Democratic to the Republican Party over the last 60 years and into elite positions of conservative power – five of the last six Republican appointees to the Supreme Court have been Catholic. Irish Catholics have been part of that shift, becoming more conservative as they cease to be immigrant outsiders.
The Catholic opposition to Biden points up the ideological divisions within conservative Catholicism around Pope Francis’s pontificate and domestic culture wars. Francis has been vociferously criticised as a disaster for the church, with many denouncing the first Latin-American pontiff as a “globalist”.
More mainstream Catholicism retains a hesitancy about speaking out in support of party politics, observing the division between church and state. But that division is increasingly under strain, as Catholics and Americans more generally register a loss of faith in constitutional democracy.
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