Their newfound love of the EU is pure political expediency. Its a means to use Brexit to drive a wedge between GB and NI, and given how they have positioned themselves as ‘progressives’ like the Scottish Nationalists are using that to play to their base.
Its no wonder some Catholic Republicans have started voting DUP, they are the only ones standing up for Christian values, regardless of their position on transubstantiation vs constansubistation.
Their “political expediency” will turn out to be political folly; Brussels has too much power and they won’t be able to extricate themselves from it.
The so-called Scottish “nationalists” actually want to join the EU in the case of leaving the UK. That is not actual nationalism; but then again, like Sinn Féin, they are themselves socialists. (Scottish national socialists? Nazis? Someone ought to call them out on that.)
The irony is that if the late Ian Paisley was still around and using his old rhetoric against “Papists”, the DUP certainly would not garner a conservative Catholic vote, even faced with the godless socialism that’s besetting them now