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‘We Have Been Living Under a Lawless Regime’: Catholics Celebrate Trump Overhauls, by Ken Oliver-Méndez – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Ken Oliver-Méndez, CNA, January 21, 2025

As the newly-installed Trump administration hit the ground running, several high-profile Catholic intellectuals in the United States anticipated and celebrated a number of changes that are coming to the country.

For Trump’s second term in office, author and associate professor of history at the University of Dallas Susan Hanssen noted to CNA that Trump is now “better prepared than his first entry into federal government and unhampered by the need to seek reelection.”

“Trump’s base will be watching hopefully for deep structural changes that cannot be easily reversed or rolled back, particularly to the Department of Justice and FBI so that it cannot be so easily used to target political enemies,” she said.

Hanssen also predicted decisive measures at the Department of Education, with more control being turned back to the states “and ultimately, to the parents.” …

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