But it wouldn’t be as funny as excommunicating Vance.
Mmm…debatable. I would be laughing if Trump managed to get a national interdict from the first US-born pope.
thinks
It’d create a stupendous political shitstorm. Like, back when Catholic immigration to the US started to increase, there used to be a national frenzy from the (then-much-more-Protestant) American population worried that the Pope would control the government.
I’d venture to say that starting a Protestant-Catholic split would be an extremely bad move in terms of the Republican Party’s fortunes, given that it’s presently the social conservative party.
I could honestly see some bullshit happening like this, if either were to be excommunicated: trump starts his own “offshoot” of Catholicism where he’s literally just God now, and all his MAGAts will switch to this new “religion” because Daddy trump said so.
Mmm…debatable. I would be laughing if Trump managed to get a national interdict from the first US-born pope.
thinks
It’d create a stupendous political shitstorm. Like, back when Catholic immigration to the US started to increase, there used to be a national frenzy from the (then-much-more-Protestant) American population worried that the Pope would control the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States
Puck, 1894:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Udo_J.%2CKeppler_The_American_Pope_1894_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1118_01.jpg
Harper’s Weekly, 1871:
https://thomasnast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/15TW-TheAmericanRiverGanges.jpg
I’d venture to say that starting a Protestant-Catholic split would be an extremely bad move in terms of the Republican Party’s fortunes, given that it’s presently the social conservative party.
I could honestly see some bullshit happening like this, if either were to be excommunicated: trump starts his own “offshoot” of Catholicism where he’s literally just God now, and all his MAGAts will switch to this new “religion” because Daddy trump said so.