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By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine, Jan.11, 2024

Eric Sammons is the editor-in-chief of Crisis Magazine.

Should Catholics even bother to vote in the 2024 Presidential Election?

It’s 2024, which means it’s an election year, which means…what exactly?

The presidential primary season begins in less than two weeks, and the ridiculousness of this year’s cycle should not be overlooked. First, the primaries are foregone conclusions, met with all the enthusiasm of a parish singing “Be Not Afraid” for the 487th time in the past decade. Both the Democratic and Republican nominations are already locked up, at least on paper, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who at first promised to shake things up a bit, hasn’t really moved the needle since he went Independent (and paradoxically started sounding more like a boring major party candidate).

Second, it’s very possible that at least one of the two presumptive major party nominees (and perhaps both!) will not actually be on the ballot come November. The Dems might drop President Biden due to his apparent death three years ago, and the GOP might not be allowed by the courts to put former President Trump on the ballot. …

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