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What Musk vs. Trump Means for Catholics and for Vance, by Peter Wolfgang  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump, November 16, 2024. Source X.com. Author Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, Jun 06, 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. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own.

 

It’s happening sooner than I expected. Way sooner. I thought the 2028 Republican presidential primaries would be the time to work all this out. But this thing is going down right now.

I’m talking about the very public falling out between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I never expected that relationship to last four years. No one did. But I didn’t expect it to blow up this soon.

And the thing that’s happening sooner than I thought? The fight whose timetable just got moved up? It’s not Musk vs. Trump. It’s Musk vs. Vance.

Granted, Vance hasn’t spoken a word about the Musk/Trump split as I write this column. But you know it’s coming. So let’s get out ahead of it and have that conversation now. Because it has huge implications for the future of Catholic engagement in American politics.

First a brief history, courtesy of my own archives here at Catholic Culture. Recall my reaction to Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the March for Life: …..

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