Corey Alpert

He's working through this in real time.

It's quite substantial.

The evangelical vote in the United States constitutes a huge percentage of the Republican Party.

And these are people who hold their religious beliefs quite seriously, and to mock them on the basis of their religion is something that is going to matter with them.

Of course, the irony is that they have used their own religious beliefs, and through Trump, they think that that's what makes it okay for him to mock other people's religion.

You know, we saw just last week him mocking the Iranian regime on the basis of their religion, and they were perfectly happy with that.

But now that that's turned inward, this is something that is going to bother many of the evangelical voters who have put Trump in office.

It is a...

substantial part of the Republican Party that really is coalesced around Trump.

You see comment after comment from these evangelical leaders saying, we know that Donald Trump isn't a religious man himself, but they've come to build this almost theology around him as they admit that he's a flawed man, but he's delivering on many of the promises

that they have built up through their political project that really goes back to the 1970s and has now found this culmination in Donald Trump.

And if this really ends up damaging his standing with those voters, that really could put a massive dent in

his political base in the power that he has to sway those voters.

And these are folks who aren't necessarily very supportive of Catholics.

You even hear many of these pastors having very anti-Catholic views, saying that Catholics shouldn't hold public office, things like that.

But they are now starting to pay attention to the fact that Donald Trump is willing to turn against his own supporters to say that their own religious views can now be held against them and can now be things that he can use to go after them.

And that is making them very uncomfortable right now.

I think this, even more than the AI-generated image, is the thing that's causing outrage around the world.

This is the first time, at least in living memory, that you have a world leader, especially of a nation with a large degree of a Christian population, going after the Pope.

It's something that Mussolini didn't do.