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In reply to the discussion: Conversion to Catholism is suddenly "cool"? [View all]keep_left
(3,212 posts)...back in 1996, when the Catholic neocons at this ridiculous make-work "journal" got so pissed off at Clinton's re-election that they started advocating for theocracy.
"If we just force everyone (at gunpoint) to be radtrad Catholics, then we'll be in a utopia!!"
The author and historian Damon Linker wrote of his break with these maniacs in his book The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege (2006). It's still worth a read two decades later. The outposts of this "culture" (EWTN, Relevant Radio, Ave Maria "University", etc.) have only grown more extreme. Trump often sucks up to them; he apparently thinks that he can buy enough votes from weird, often tiny countercultures that they will make some sort of difference to whatever his goals are at the moment.
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Theocons-Secular-America-Under-Siege/dp/0385516479