Politics

By Joshua Monnington, The Federalist - But to imply that the problem of leftist extremists in political office is limited to Mamdani and Jones would be inaccurate. There is, of course, Keith Ellison, the attorney general of Minnesota, “a big supporter of infamous anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,” who has been accused of physical abuse by multiple women. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat congresswoman from Minnesota, has blamed Charlie Kirk for his assassination and said that on 9/11 “some people did something.” Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters have been anything but shy about inciting intimidation and violence against their political opponents.

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report - Compared with secular and certain other religious tendencies, Catholics and Catholic organizations seem unusually resistant to the appeal of political violence... But what about Catholic political behavior when aligned with power?... Integralism, which might be defined as the view that Catholicism ought to play a political role rather like that now played by the liberal conception of human rights, is commonly considered extreme. And indeed a pope like Innocent III exercised extensive political power—organizing crusades, intervening in the choice of emperors, annulling Magna Carta, and so on.