By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - In 2020, Ross Douthat wrote “The Decadent Society.” It is a book in which, as Vox described it, “Douthat’s definition of a ‘decadent society’ is that we’re trapped in a stale system that keeps spinning in place, reproducing the same arguments and frustrations over and over again.”... Could there be any better description of how we think about Catholics and voting in the United States? It has been the same thing forever. Or at least since the 1980s... That was the decade in which New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, in 1984, made his infamous “personally opposed, but…” speech about abortion at Notre Dame University.