Massimo Faggioli

It's very hard to know.

What has happened has surprised many people, myself included.

Last week, we saw that both the Vatican diplomacy and the US diplomacy, they tried to deescalate last week.

Um, and then on Sunday night, late, uh, president Trump tweets and everything goes in a certain direction.

So it's very hard to, to predict, but there's a growing rift between a traditional conservative and religious mindset, a set of values and the new revolutionary

technology is our salvation kind of alliance.

That is what is splitting apart the coalition and that might be very important for the political future of Donald Trump and of America.

It might.

So that might affect their politics because they lose their jobs and so on.

But let's remember that Trumpism is a populist movement.

which is by definition something that is very good at finding scapegoats for what happens.

And so we don't know where that goes.

Now, the Catholic Church has an important role to play here because Pope Leo chose his name after Pope Leo XIII was the first pope addressing the social question of what capitalism was doing to the Western civilization in the late 1800s.

And so Pope Leo XIV chose his name

Because he said in his first day, we are looking at a new industrial and technological revolution.

And so he can interpret that.

But you're right.

In this case, America is the stage for this experiment.

And so far, populism was able to find every time new scapegoats and to survive.

AI might be too big for any populist to obscure and hide some costs, and that might turn the fortunes of the MAGA movement in a different way.