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The Politics of Shill, by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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2017: Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei (April 19, 1939 – February 28, 2026) prays with a turbah (prayer stone, a practice specific to Shia Islam) [source: Wikipedia]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, April 17, 2026

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

 

The pope may be many things in many contexts, but he should avoid becoming a shill for the Democratic Party. This is how he came across when he delivered a political statement just after he had been visited by David Axelrod, Obama’s behind-the-scenes heavy.

The effect was redoubled when leading liberal Cardinals, including Chicago’s Blase Cupich, put on a media floorshow to promote the pope’s  “message to America.” It was prattle we had heard many times before, from nice, peaceful politicians like Jimmy Carter: peace-not-war, appeasement, and negotiation at any price.

The pope had been proclaiming this himself on Twitter when he was only Cardinal Robert Prevost: simplistic Leftism along with Democratic talking points, and open immigration. …

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