E. Bruenig lives in this wacky dreamworld where left-wing traditionalist Catholics are an actual political force that people have to count on when coalition-building, where the success or failure of a project depends on what the Pope thinks about it Which is obvious nonsense
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*She* needs to believe that because *she* needs to think of herself as relevant and ignore that most of the actual left wing -- including the left wing of people who culturally identify as Catholics -- does not give a shit about St. Augustine and Aquinas' Summa Theologica etc
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So it's not weird that she writes things like this It's weird that other people hire her to, that WaPo and the NYT think this is a POV it's important to give representation to It really is this weird mix of condescending conservatism + addiction to novelty
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Wanting someone whose perspective is strange but also reassuring at the same time -- you can't beat the old Alex P. Keaton cliche of "Young person who thinks like an old person" It's hilariously, tragically on-brand that their token socialist has to be the tradcath socialist
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