What makes it acceptable, of course, is Catholicism’s “systematic thought,” which is rich in what Palmieri clearly considers sophisticated mumbo-jumbo, such as “Thomistic thought” and “subsidiarity.” But what makes Catholicism attractive to conservatives, of course, is its “severely backwards gender relations.”Īs someone who didn’t convert to Catholicism to impress any rich friends, but grew up in it and fought for it in such hostile environments as a post-Catholic high school and Yale University, let me unpack the Hillary team email just a little. It would help if you held evangelical Christians in utter contempt, and assumed that the rest of the country agrees with you - to the point that “rich” conservatives would actually choose to be Catholic instead because it is more “socially acceptable.” What kind of a medieval troglodyte would go in for a gesture like that? It’s not as if sophisticated liberals venerated sacred places associated with their own revered religious leaders (see Manhattan’s “Margaret Sanger Square”).īut you really would need to be a jaded ex-Catholic (maybe with an Irish last name like “Halpin” or an Italian one like “Palmieri”) to understand the nuances in the rest of this message. If you were a Beltway political hack, you would get how “friggin” funny it is that Rupert Murdoch had his kid baptized in the Jordan, where Jesus was baptized. In it, Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri corresponds with John Halpin of the leftist Center for American Progress. Among the 1,000 emails which the trolls at Wikileaks hacked from the office of Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta, is one really telling note. High up on that list is believing Catholics and evangelicals. Now it’s even clearer, thanks to Wikileaks, which kinds of people Hillary’s team deplores - and will treat accordingly, once they wield the bloated powers of the presidency. (See yet another leaked email for the news that Hillary hates “ everyday Americans.”) At least she might get away with it in the media, if the target were one of the “basket of deplorables” whom she said are half of Trump’s supporters - some one in five Americans. With the week Donald Trump has been having, Hillary Clinton could probably shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and not lose any votes.
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