Scott Johnson, like John Hinderaker before him… now realizes Trump has put himself in a “lose-lose” position, and is in deep trouble, with something like 75 million [US voting] Catholics.
Scott personally, at the close of his morning’s burpings, even says he may have to choose between his faith, and his vote (he is a self-identified Catholic).
Most of Scott’s pungent opinion column this morning suggests that the Pope is doing something nefarious, or at least… somehow, darkly non-kosher, in speaking out about matters of morality. [Yet we all know dozens of Catholics who’ve regarded the 2016, 2020 and 2024 votes for 1600 Penn, as a litmus test — on abortion. And Scott saw nothing wrong with that myopic assessment. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Fascinating.]
Solely it seems, because the Pope’s correct statements on the New Testament conflict with Trump’s endlessly cruel agendas — and thus offend the tangerine dotard. Fall 2026 will be another litmus test moment for Catholics, it would seem. Perfect.
So (in Scott’s eyes), Trump has a First Amendment right (to ridiculously call Pope Leo “soft on crime, and a radical far left liberal“), but the very same leader of the Catholic faith lacks a right to practice, and express his religion? To say nothing of his right to free expression, Scott? Hilarious.
Specifically, Scott says this:
…So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama’s campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left.
And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing.
All organically, I’m sure….
Trump’s insults are excused as ‘Trump being Trump’ — “water is… wet”, Scott says.
But the Pope must silently suffer the unhinged insults of a man who depicts himself as Jesus Christ, and claims this is a war endorsed by… God himself?!
N O P E.
The Pope never even named Trump — he just said Jesus is not on the side of an aggressor in these wars.
That is the Pope’s expression of his / Christ’s faith. Matthew 23:25; and 25:40.
If that enrages Trump — well, it says more about… Trump’s war than anything. And Scott, and the GOP/MAGA should come to terms with at least some substantial portion of the American voting ~75 million Catholics… abandoning him, and his sociopaths / minions, at the voting booth in November 2026.
Onward.
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