The Journey of Catholic Vote into the Dark Heart of MAGA Prostitution

Yesterday, we excavated from the mists of the past definitive archaeological evidence that Catholic Vote was at one time linked to the Catholic Tradition. So what happened to them after their prescient analysis of and protest against support for Donald Trump in January 2016?

In brief, Trump led them and millions of others of the Greatest Christians of All Time up an exceeding high mountain and showed them all the kingdoms of the earth, promising, “All this will I give you if you will bow down and worship me!” and Catholic Vote swooned, “Take me!” stripped off their clothes and leapt into bed with him.

My friend Emma Fox Wilson does the autopsy on the integrity of Catholic Vote and the groveling Trump toady who used to be Brian Burch:

Next in our perp-walk of shame, comes Brian Burch – Trump’s nominee for US Ambassador to the Vatican. Trump? And the Vatican? You know it’s going to be a doozie.

And it is. Burch is best known for founding Catholic Vote. Their tagline says it all: “a group of patriotic Catholics fighting for our nation’s founding principles.”

See how “patriotic” comes before “Catholic”. That’s no accident: the group openly elevates obedience to MAGA above obedience to basic Catholic teachings:

“Border security is moral!”

“Marian Budde asks Trump to have mercy… Unbelievable”

“[Trump] was saved by God to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”.

– and all of this is sicklied over with the saccharine veneer of “Christ is King!” and “Jesus is Lord!” – but never “Learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart.”

Burch gained notoriety in 2020 when reporters discovered that Catholic Vote was so desperate to identify potential Trump voters, that it was secretly using geofencing to collect information from the mobile phones of Mass-goers, all over the country.

Catholic Vote’s FB page has become increasingly eccentric since Trump’s coup. Recent posts include a series of breathless stories about how Trump has personally “pledged to investigate” some alleged Satanists, who may be operating somewhere near St Patrick’s Church, in Wichita, Kansas. Maybe there’s a nice golf-course there.

Then there was the big splash on some woman called Nicole, who decided to celebrate surviving the near-death experience which led her to God, by running as a candidate alongside RFK Jr. This may not have been Nicole’s brightest move, given that RFK Jr is hell-bent on ensuring that she – and millions of others around the world – will have plenty more near-death experiences. If they’re lucky.

Of course, Burch is right up there alongside RFK Jr in his grim-reaping. He’s on record as saying that COVID was no more serious than the flu and suggesting that monkey-pox is no big deal: “Remember when monkey-pox was the next big thing?”

Predictably, Burch has also consistently attacked the current Pope, saying that Francis shows “a pattern of vindictiveness” and claiming that synodality was merely some sort of dishonest “ruse”. Burch is, instead, a big fan of Bishop Strickland of Tyler – a man who accused the Pope of “undermining the deposit of faith” and of “refusing to reject the siren call of sodomy”. (Yes, Tyler did say “siren call” and yes, that is hilarious coming from someone who is Against That Sort of Thing. Probably best not ask.)

Talking of sodomy, no picture of the MAGA Catholic hellscape is complete without our old friend Taylor Marshall (you remember: the one with the vision of the beautiful naked woman with the engorged…yes, him). Marshall is a big fan of Burch.

In case it’s not yet obvious why Trump has chosen someone with such a terrible record and so hostile an attitude towards the Vatican, to be America’s ambassador to… erm… the Vatican, we have only to glance across at Burch’s biggest qualification for the job: his epic fawning.

When he’s not eagerly hosting comments on Catholic Vote like “Trump and Jesus have a lot in common” (yes, someone genuinely wrote that), Burch is sharing stuff like this on Twittter:

“Trump is now the stuff of Greek mythology. He is Achilles without the bum heel. “ (14 July 2024)

Any sane Catholic – any sane human being – would see that Burch isn’t fit to look after anything more complicated than a stuffed mongoose But what does Trump care? He’s the stuff of Greek mythology you know. And as for his heels? Well – nobody mention the bone spurs. It’ll upset Brian.

Emma has the number of this MAGA cultist. He was an enemy of the late Holy Father, remains an enemy of the least of these, and is now in love with worldly power and has made himself the willing servant of a dimestore antichrist.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.

Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us. (1 Jn 2:15–19)