Posted on 04/26/2025 7:57:21 PM PDT by Morgana
With the death of Pope Francis, the attention of the world naturally turns toward the Church, and mostly toward Rome. But this focus on Catholicism should also prod an examination of the massive Catholic shift away from Democrats across America.
Specifically, Catholics now overwhelmingly disapprove of the Democratic Party by a massive 25% margin, with only 31% approval and 56% disapproval. Admittedly, political parties are generally not popular with voters. But for context, the Republican Party is only -2% underwater among Catholics, with 44% approval and 46% disapproval. So, by comparison, the Democrats face an absolute crisis collapse among Catholics in America.
These numbers were revealed by a survey for my League of American Workers advocacy group, compiled by TIPP Insights polling, which conducted a nationwide survey of over 1,500 voters April 7-9.
Compared to most of U.S. history, this new partisan gap among Catholics is quite astounding. For many decades, Catholics formed an absolute foundational base of the Democrats, from northern city political machines to Al Smith to John F. Kennedy. But the Democrats of today would find no place for a JFK or a Tip O’Neill. Instead, it has devolved into a party of open borders, globalist trade policies, constant warfighting abroad, and cultural Marxism that elevates the most fringe aspects of human perversion into some sort of faux noble cause.
As a consequence, Catholics flee the party in droves. In fact, Catholics provided the key determinative difference in Donald Trump’s win last November. After all, some of the most pivotal swing states in America boast huge Catholic populations, especially the “northern three” battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. But even outside of swing states, Trump rolled up an incredible +11% margin among Catholics nationwide, a giant improvement over his tie among Catholics in 2020. Trump does not win the popular vote without his dominant performance among Catholics.
In this Catholic landslide, the rank-and-file voters who fill church pews on Sunday proved their fundamental disagreement with many prominent church hierarchical voices on political matters in the United States, especially regarding immigration. Instead, Catholics rallied fervently to President Trump and his Catholic running mate, J.D. Vance, who insisted on border security. They delivered a mandate to deport millions of illegal aliens who trespassed into our country, many with the overt permission of the supposedly devoutly Catholic Joe Biden.
Now that Trump and Vance have indeed brought stability and control to the border region of America, Catholics remain firm believers in sovereignty and law and order. This same poll revealed widespread overall support for the Trump/Vance approach on immigration. For example, on mass deportations, all Americans support the policy by a +15% margin, 55-40%. Among Catholic Americans, the margin is even higher, with a +21% margin, 59-38%. When asked about illegal migrants with a criminal record, support for deportation soars higher. Catholics support those deportations by a stunning 81-15%.
The fallout for the Democrats is tectonic. Historically, Catholics decide national elections. They have been the key swing vote for decades. For over half a century, the Catholic vote went to every presidential winner except once. The lone exception was the super-close 2000 race between Al Gore and eventual winner George W. Bush.
So, looking at history, it is hard to exaggerate the importance of this massive realignment. The Democratic Party of yesteryear was so closely identified with Catholicism that anti-Democrat political messaging often carried explicitly bigoted anti-Catholic themes!
But now, Catholics reject the radicalism of the 2020s Democrats. Instead, millions of us now find an invigorating political home in the patriotic populism of the America First movement.
The Catholic church has been under attacks by the Democrat Party for decades.
If the Democrats keep fighting Trump by picking the 20% side of every issue, there might be a landslide in the 2026 Congressional elections where we pick up a lot of seats rather than losing them like the incumbent party usually does in the midterms. Don’t let up on the pressure and don’t get lazy. Fight like you’re ten points behind and they’ll cheat to get even more.
Took long enough.
I’m not a Catholic. I’m baptized and religious educated as OLD school Lutheran.
So I understand the Catholic liturgy, but not it’s
actual practice of sacraments and church services.
Luther rationally made the argument of using the
bible for simplicity. 95 Theses sound familiar?
I can’t for the life of me understand why Catholics can support the God-less practices of the modern Democrat party.
There’s a bunch of lefty urban Catholics who think Obama is keen.
If the RATS keep the way they are going, they are going to end up as popular as saber toothed crotch crickets.
It’s the other way around. Democrats turned on Catholics.
Democrats tend to be satanic Marxists. That does not mix with Catholicism.
Catholics value the Holy Family, children, honesty, integrity.
Not democrat values of transgender, abortions, lies and deception.
Then most of them became democrats due to a democrat being the first Catholic elected President.
We'll see if they "get it" now that they know deep state Johnson and the CIA killed him.
They have become more "religious" about their politics than their religion.
White Catholics abandoned the Democrat party a long time ago. Think Hungarians, Poles, Italians, Irish, etc. What was allowing Democrats to stay competitive was the large number of Hispanics who had come in. But in this last election, Trump made massive inroads among Hispanics drawing close to 50/50 with them. Since they were the one support pillar of the Democrats among Catholics, that left nothing to counter all the White Catholics who left the Democrat party decades and decades ago. Thus it was a rout.
We'll NEVER see this poll reported on a MSM Sunday Morning 'news' Show... or in the New York Times or Washington Post.
I think Tip O’Neill would have fit right in with the current Democrat party. He’d have adopted all the idiocy along with all the other old school liberals who did so.
Preach it!!!!!!
From your lips to God's ears.
Does this mean the Catholic Church will finally excommunicate Catholic politicians who support abortion?
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