It just occurred to me — and this is probably not the case! — that this may be the third recent major election in which Trump has thrown the result to his ideological opponents by bigfooting around where no one wanted him.
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I think that's a bit overstating what happened in Australia. There it wasn't that Trump got involved as much as local conservatives went out of their way to imitate culture wars style conservatism, and that did not play well at all in the rich suburbs that are their traditional base.
Idk, there was a very small chance they'd pick a conservative, let alone 1 of the only 5 cardinals in the conclave aligned with Trump. A pope aligned with Francis was a more likely outcome, so he didn't sway the opinion like in CA or AUS. That said, they only picked one from US because of Trump.
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The Ultra Conservative Catholics need to be reeled back in to the church's core teachings and values of their faith.
Hulking, primitive, aimless.
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