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Trump Inauguration and March for Life, by Peter Wolfgang – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Trump Inauguration and March for Life, by Peter Wolfgang

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By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Jan 25, 2025

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. …

 

I wear many hats. One of them is being a board member for March for Life Action, the c4 lobbying wing of the March for Life. Having just returned from a whirlwind week in Washington, I wanted to don another of my hats, Catholic Culture columnist, and share my thoughts with you, gentle reader.

First, the inauguration. I was not in town yet. But, like many of you, I was glued to my television. I have been following politics for nearly 50 years, literally since I was six years old, and I think this was the most I ever watched one.

I never agreed with the elite disdain for Trump’s “American Carnage” first inaugural speech in 2017. It felt as if the media and politicians were clucking their tongues at it from within their gated communities. But many Americans live among the very desolation Trump described. For them—for us—Trump’s description rang all too true. The disdain expressed for it simply widened the chasm between what Peggy Noonan had called “the protected” and “the unprotected.” …

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