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Showing Original Post only (View all)'MAGA is very angry': Conservative strategist says new pope is in far right's 'crosshairs' [View all]
'MAGA is very angry': Conservative strategist says new pope is in far right's 'crosshairs' - RawstoryThe new pope is a balanced papal leader with a biblical message, but that hasn't stopped MAGA allies from being enraged about him being elected, a conservative political consultant said on Friday.
Rick Wilson, a consistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump, wrote leading up to the weekend that "MAGA hates the woke pope."
"Pope Leo — lately Cardinal Robert Prevost — was one of the types of cardinals in the crosshairs of a MAGA opposition research and smear campaign to disqualify moderate and progressive cardinals for the Papacy. (I heard about this effort six or seven years ago and counseled a potential vendor to stay far, far away. I heard it was later rebooted after it leaked under another organization.)," Wilson wrote. "They wanted a MAGA Pope, a cardinal in a red baseball cap willing to turn the Church of Rome into one more echo chamber."
"The fact that Leo is an American from Chicago makes them more furious," he noted. "He understands our politics and culture in a way no other candidate for the Papacy would have, and this frightens MAGA TradCath types who wanted a Trump ally in the Vatican."
Rick Wilson, a consistent thorn in the side of Donald Trump, wrote leading up to the weekend that "MAGA hates the woke pope."
"Pope Leo — lately Cardinal Robert Prevost — was one of the types of cardinals in the crosshairs of a MAGA opposition research and smear campaign to disqualify moderate and progressive cardinals for the Papacy. (I heard about this effort six or seven years ago and counseled a potential vendor to stay far, far away. I heard it was later rebooted after it leaked under another organization.)," Wilson wrote. "They wanted a MAGA Pope, a cardinal in a red baseball cap willing to turn the Church of Rome into one more echo chamber."
"The fact that Leo is an American from Chicago makes them more furious," he noted. "He understands our politics and culture in a way no other candidate for the Papacy would have, and this frightens MAGA TradCath types who wanted a Trump ally in the Vatican."
If being an American from Chicago makes 'em mad, wait 'til they find out he's of Creole ancestry. E la ba.

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'MAGA is very angry': Conservative strategist says new pope is in far right's 'crosshairs' [View all]
B.See
May 9
OP
I would be willing to bet a lot of money that Donny has never grabbed a woman that looked like them.
tanyev
May 10
#42
That's part of the MAGAt self-delusion. They think Trump actually likes them, cares about them.
Celerity
May 10
#43
I'm intrigued about Pope Leo's ancestry and would love for Finding Your Roots to be a future feature.
Deuxcents
May 10
#5
Hopefully our more excitable friends will bear this in mind-- he's a good man, but he's responsible to...
Hekate
May 10
#6
Good what makes them angry I'm all for. I'm not catholic, but one of my new mottos will be "Be a Leo the XIV."
PortTack
May 10
#18
MAGAs are so consumed with hatred and violence they want to destroy a new pope.
Irish_Dem
May 10
#40