Tell yourself whatever you want to but you can’t change the reality of what made America liberal, even FDR would have only had his normal two terms if Catholic devotion to his agenda had not overcome the majority Republican vote by Protestants in 1940 and 1944. The monsters of American presidential history are FDR, JFK, Lyndon Johnson and Obama.
Imagine the last 70 years of American leftist history if they could not elect radical left Presidents and liberal Congresses. Imagine how far to the right electioneering and political issues and the national dialogue would have moved, as the two parties had to compete without such a dependable, large liberal base for the left’s agenda. For that matter, go back to the 90 years before that even.
For conservatives, it is important to know who the opposition is, not pretend to not know because they are a group that you share a tribal identity with. We cannot fix what we cannot identify, and if we are to undo the damage that the Kennedys did opening the border flood gates to more Catholics, then we need to figure out how to get them to quit being so liberal and to start voting like Protestants that come from their same exact background. We need to figure out how to Americanize them or we will will continue to become a more Catholic and leftist nation.
Hopefully you were happy to see the Republicans finally win a tiny majority in the house in 1994, perhaps you wondered who had been driving congressional liberalism so effectively for the 60 years before. “Catholics were solidly Democratic in House elections from 1932 to 1992. Thus, the 1994 results were somewhat shocking as Republicans captured 52 per cent of the Catholic vote”
Sounds like your opposition is not to the Catholic Church but to liberal Catholics. I share that with you. In fac,t liberal Catholics trouble me more than they trouble you because they foul up my spiritual home as well as my national home.