Sarah Longwell

The Pope one is especially deranged.

Why is he so mad at our American Pope?

I think it's exactly that.

I think he's got he's got like a MAGA brother who Trump's always truthing and being like his brother loves Trump.

And so he's better.

And this pope is, you know, I think like us, just a normal guy who previously kind of had some center right cultural ways or center different center right views.

Positions who also, though, believes in liberalism and human flourishing and taking each life seriously and not demonizing different groups of people.

And as a result, he finds himself in that very weird sweet spot of bulwark, those of us at the bulwark.

But Trump hates him the same way Trump hates particularly never-Trumpers.

But to me, what's interesting about Trump

Well, there's a lot about it that's interesting.

Some of it is, again, goes to decompensation and also Trump clearly feeling under siege in a lot of different areas.

But part of it is like J.D.

Vance, and I do think J.D.

Vance is really the through line of so many of these stories, right?

J.D.

Vance, this is a meme on Twitter.

social media that is just a little bit funny about J.D.

Vance being a cooler.

You know, like the last pope he went and visited and then the pope died.