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Trump and the Pope: a Right-Wing Populist (Today) Clashing with a Left-Wing Populist
Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo

Posted on 02/22/2016 3:35:54 PM PST by juliosevero


Trump and the Pope: a Right-Wing Populist (Today) Clashing with a Left-Wing Populist

By Julio Severo

In his recent trip to Mexico, Pope Francis said that that it was not right the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's attitude of surrounding the United States with a wall preventing the entry of illegal immigrants.

Trump struck back by saying that the supreme leader of Catholics around the world is a shame -- evidently by his leftist stances.

Francis does not want a wall surrounding the U.S. and keeping immigrants outside, but the Vatican itself is surrounded 100% by a wall preventing the entry of all illegal immigrants, especially Islamic invasions.

If Francis is worried about immigrants, why does not he take them in the Vatican? Why does not he overthrow the Vatican's wall and make it clear that all illegal immigrants, especially Muslims, are welcome there?

The Vatican policy, as exposed by Catholic writer Cliff Kincaid, has been to facilitate invasions of immigrants in the U.S. and Europe, because the Catholic Church has financial agreements with governments to help immigrants, so that the more immigrant invasions, the more money the Catholic Church receives.

It is obvious Francis is a left-wing populist, even though he is pro-life and pro-family. It is similarly obvious that Trump is a right-wing populist, even though he has not a pro-life and pro-family history.

Trump's fantastic promises that make him a right-wing populist:

1. He has promised to ban Muslim immigrants from the U.S. This is an excellent promise.

2. He has promised to open the U.S. for Christian immigrants persecuted by Muslims around the world. This is an excellent promise.

3. He has publicly demonstrated admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and he has promised better relations with Russia. He is the only candidate who sees Islam, not Russia, as the main threat.

In his promises, Trump is a gust of fresh air in the U.S. politics.

The other Republican candidates, especially neocons, paranoidly vociferate against Russia, putting it as the main threat in the world. Oppositely, Trump vociferates against Islamists, putting Islam as such threat and promising a better relationship and friendship with Russia.

The other Republican candidates, especially neocons, promise more measures to contain Russians. Oppositely, Trump promises more measures to contain Muslims and greater opening to Russia.

The other Republican candidates, especially neocons, do not vociferate against Islamic crimes against Christians. Trump does it.

The other Republican candidates, especially neocons, want U.S. interventions in Syria and support the best interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia in Syria. Both Islamic nations have supported the best interests of ISIS and other Islamic terrorists groups that have been the main responsible for the suffering and death of Christians in Syria, which has one of oldest Christian communities in the world. Trump is the only Republican candidate who has expressed a concern for Syrian Christians above the best interests of Turkey and Saudi Arabia. In fact, Trump is the only Republican candidate who has supported Russian interventions in Syria to fight ISIS and protect Christians.

The other Republican candidates, especially neocons, vociferate against Trump's pro-Russia and anti-Muslim stances.

So Trump is totally different from the other Republican candidates, who are paranoid about Russia, not about Islamic threat. If Trump becomes president, anti-Russia and pro-Islam neocons will be shaken and disappointed.

Trump is Presbyterian and is not known as a spiritual man, but his promises of containing the Islamic threat have enraged the Saudi leadership, who has declared that Trump cannot become president, and make him better than most Presbyterians in the U.S.

Yet, he loses for the pope in pro-life and pro-family issues. Besides, Trump has never put into action his fantastic promises.

If by a miracle Trump is able, after elected, to become a pro-life and pro-family man that he has never been in all his existence, he will the perfect president. A friendlier relationship with Russian and a less friendly relationship with Muslim dictatorships is all the world needs, and in this Trump is completely right.

Now, it is hard to choose between a right-wing populist (today) who is pro-Russia and anti-Islam and a left-wing populist who is pro-life and pro-family and wants Muslim invasions in the U.S. and Europe, but not in the Vatican.

I support Trump's pro-Russian and anti-Islamic populism (whose promises are theoretical).

And I support Pope Francis' pro-life and pro-family populism.

Both need to learn political issues from one another.

About the charge from the pope that Trump is not a Christian, who can assure that the pope is a Christian?

Real Christianity is not left-wing or right-wing populism. Real Christianity is to know Christ and preach and demonstrate the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, by healing the sick, expelling demons and delivering the captives, all in the name of Jesus and by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The pope and Trump do not seem to know this Christianity, which was preached and lived by Jesus and his apostles.

Only God knows if both will come to know and live such Gospel someday.

Only God knows if Trump will fulfill his pro-Russia and anti-Islam promises.

Only God knows if Trump will fulfill his promises of priorizing the entry in the U.S. of persecuted Christian immigrants.

Only God knows if Trump, who was a left-wing populist in the past, will be in the future the right-wing populist he is today.

Only God knows if Trump is going to be a hindrance or facilitator for the persistent U.S. politics of exporting and imposing the homosexual and abortion agenda around the world.

What about the pope's involvement in the U.S. elections? I do not know what this could result. But U.S. Catholics, especially immigrants, prefer to vote for left-wing candidates, often putting socialist and populist issues above pro-life issues. Most Catholics have elected Obama, a left-wing populist who has been extremely "generous" to Catholic and Muslim immigrants.

As a right-wing populist, willing to build a wall preventing illegal and Muslim immigration, Trump is unlikely to receive support from the pope and most of his U.S. sheep.

He is also unlikely to receive support from pro-life leaders, unless he speaks up so forcefully about pro-life and pro-family issues as he has spoken up about Islamic issues.

If even the pope has chosen to be a left-wing pro-life populist, why cannot Trump choose to be a right-wing pro-life populist?

Vatican's Wall
Be it as it may, the pope has a massive wall around the Vatican for protection against illegal immigrants and Islamic invasions. Why cannot Trump build a massive wall around the U.S. for the same purpose?

Portuguese version of this article: Trump e o papa: um populista de direita (hoje) em conflito com um populista de esquerda

Source: Last Days Watchman

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Reference; Religion
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; pope; vatican

1 posted on 02/22/2016 3:35:55 PM PST by juliosevero
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To: juliosevero
It is obvious Francis is a left-wing populist, even though he is pro-life and pro-family.

This is not a gimmie. Popes are not saints and their sins are the greater sins.

2 posted on 02/22/2016 3:40:05 PM PST by Fhios (circa 2016: Truth will be outlawed unless pre-approved.)
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To: juliosevero

Not to mention the two biggest egos on the planet...


3 posted on 02/22/2016 3:40:44 PM PST by livius
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To: Fhios

National Populist vs International Populist.


4 posted on 02/22/2016 3:41:24 PM PST by sagar (3 way race; cranky populist - Trump/Sanders, establishment - Hillary/Roobio, conservative - Cruz!)
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To: juliosevero

the Pope is only infallible on issues of church doctrine. it is only on such issues that he is held to be inspired by the Holy Spirit.

when the Pope speaks on political or non-church matters, he’s no different than any other person and is quite capable of being wrong.

so far on non-church matters, Pope Francis has shown himself to be a leftwing Jesuit, which more than a hint of anti-Americanism coursing through his veins. his recent comments about walls is a good example of his lack of in depth knowledge about political matters.


5 posted on 02/22/2016 3:51:55 PM PST by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: juliosevero

Thank you, juliosevero.


6 posted on 02/22/2016 7:54:52 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: Albion Wilde

You are welcome


7 posted on 02/23/2016 10:40:16 AM PST by juliosevero
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