Bouvard on Catholic Traditionalism and Woke Politics

It does seem that much of the "Woke Reich" is a fantasy of a Catholic (pre-Vatican II) coup. Even the antisemitism seems largley theological. Maybe they're just Jacobites.

@LaurentianIAA @Imperius__13 I don't know about Catholics in general but this may be true of those trying to "weaponize" a particular brand of Catholicism today.

@Imperius__13 @LaurentianIAA Yes, something is going on with the pope. Francis seemed to be an authentic incoherent leftist, but there's something more calculated about Leo.

@Imperius__13 @LaurentianIAA One thing that the "creedal nation" idea gets right, even though it rarely emphasizes this, is that the belief that there is something "holy" about America, that God put America here for a reason, goes way back to the beginning. It's never been reducible to ethnicity.

@slooperbia50068 I suppose any time you point out something others haven’t yet seen you’re lowering the threshold of significance. What is he pointing to? I suppose what others see as a violation of manners he wants to be seen as a war.

@slooperbia50068 You could say that—I was thinking in terms of lowering the threshold for those already appalled and outraged but who think the old rules still apply.