Your likes should be higher for this one.

And, more specifically, a conservative Catholic who probably doesn't think a lot of many other Catholics (among them: James Martin, Pope Francis, and myself, which is almost certainly the only time the three of us will be in the same sentence).

I notice that he specifically avoids mentioning any nation that is historically Catholic. No Irish, Italian, or French there.

I see no other reason to include the Scotch-Irish but not the Irish themselves.

there is a way in which this is even an explicit repudiation of the constitution itself, created not to pass some european idea of "nationhood" down to posterity, but to pass *republican self-government* down to posterity.

oh i forgot about hochman. that's probably the nazi who wrote this www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...