The reason quite a few social conservatives have latched onto the bloated shitbag that is Donald Trump is that they are losing the culture war. In their benighted minds, Trump is a "winner" who "pwns the libtards" and defies political gravity. This based entirely on the narrow electoral college win in 2016. I had once hoped that Trump's awfulness would create a generational movement away from the GOP, in much the same way the Civil War booted the Democrats out of the White House for the better part of 65 years. Maybe that does still happen, but it's easy to despair. (Don't.)
The reason to believe that social conservatives are losing the culture war battle is obvious to anyone who has looked at the post-Dobbs landscape and the consistent support for abortion rights as expressed by actual voting. Another potent sign is this news that the Pope is softening some of the anti-LGBTQ positions of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis is such a break from his predecessors, men who overtly thwarted any efforts in liberalization or accountability from the many cases of priestly molestation that took place in the church they ran. He is every bit the Franciscan he started out.
This has led to despair and anger from the far right of the Catholic Church, Christo-fascists like Rod Dreher to piss and moan about the fact that the Catholic Church - HIS CHURCH - is no longer being hateful towards (checks notes) people who love each other.
The Dobbs decision was handed down to us by a Catholic majority on the Supreme Court. Any effort that Francis can make to soften the edges of one of the most regressive institutions in the world has to be welcomed, as incomplete as it might be.
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