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Harris Campaign Rhetoric in the Vatican Newspaper, by Phil Lawler – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Oct 07, 2024

So now is the Vatican newspaper is repeating the talking points of the American pro-abortion lobby?

The October 4 issue of L’Osservatore Romano carried a report on the American presidential elections, warning that the re-election of Donald Trump will lead to an “authoritarian remake” of the US government. This article—based entirely on unsupported statements by an “expert” named Federico Romero, who teaches North American history at the University of Florence—appears in the “news” section of the Vatican paper.

(The article itself is, fortuitously, behind a paywall; CWN reports on it here.)

Professor Romero is not the first person to portray Trump as an authoritarian, nor the first to hold him responsible for the polarization of the American political system. What makes his analysis remarkable is not his obvious sympathy for the Harris campaign, but the reasoning that leads him to the conclusion that a Trump victory would cause “an unprecedented twisting of democracy.” …

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