Jeremy Boreing

I think that all that has sort of conflated in this moment where there is this tribal, spiritual, and very Catholic move.

I say very Catholic because, not because it's broadly, not because Catholicism is broadly this, but because this is broadly Catholic, if that makes sense.

And it's an open effort to separate off

Protestants from political power on the right.

When Tucker Carlson says that he hates Christian Zionists more than he hates anyone, he walked that back.

But what he is talking about is Protestants in the country, saying the people who have historically voted Republican in the country aren't the Republicans that we want as part of this new conservative right-wing coalition.

And so there is this very religious component to it all.

I don't think that it's being motivated by religion.

I don't think that what's happening is an expression of religion in the country.

I think religion is being used as a tool.

This kind of goes to a broader thing that I think about, which is both for audience capture

both for overthrowing liberal democracy and ushering in a more authoritarian form of government in the country, both for getting clicks and getting views, both cynicism, both anti-Semitism, which is being wielded by so many people left and right right now,

In all of these instances, people are, I think, trying to wield evil tools, wield evil as a tool to advance their agendas.

And what they're missing is that you cannot wield evil.

You are the tool that's wielded by evil.

Everybody thinks that they can kind of ironically or, well, I'm smart.

I can use these tools, but they won't impact me.

But you can't.

You grew up Catholic.

Evil is an active force, not a passive force.