Chaput is anything BUT a “liberal Democrat archbishop”. He is one of the most staunch bishops in the country on the life issues and is one of the more conservative bishops around.
One of the things that disheartens me is the decline of conservative conversation on the web. When I started following and participating in on-line discussions about religion 14 years ago, I found, much to my delight, that the conservative Catholics were better informed, more intelligent, more articulate, and more charitable toward their opponents than their liberal Catholic opponents. That is still true, but one finds more and more instances of shoot-from-the-hip, ill-informed, uncharitable commentary.
Maybe it is a new generation. I guess I am just an old fuddy-duddy who sees decline all around him.
I’ve been on the net in one form or another since the mid 1980s. Flaming idiocy has always abounded. Your observation about “conservatives” is right on ... flaming idiocy and jaw-dropping ignorance was once primarily a feature of the “left”. I am disappointed by the amount of thoughtless ignorance that I see on this forum.