Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?
12th January 2019
Scott Johnson at Powerline looks at Democrats reverting to type.
Democrats now freely display the sort of anti-Catholic bigotry that JFK was thought to have vanquished in the 1960 presidential campaign. As they have done with so much of their history, the Democrats have deposited JFK and the 1960 campaign down the memory hole.
I wrote about the anti-Catholic bigotry on display in the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017. It was the subject of my City Journal column “The unfunniest senator” (that was Minnesota Senator Al Franken, before the fall). At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Seventh Circuit, Senators Dick Durbin and Dianne Feinstein conducted a mini-inquisition of Barrett’s religious views. “Do you consider yourself an orthodox Catholic?” Durbin asked. Feinstein concluded her questioning by telling Barrett that “the [Catholic] dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern.” They all but asked Barrett whether she is now or ever has been a member of the Catholic Church.
How soon before they ask her whether she takes her marching orders from the Pope? (You know, that child-abuse enabler in Rome.) The Democrats were known for their anti-Catholic sentiments during the Jim Crow era, and they seem to be sneaking up on their traditional anti-Semitism. How long before they start dissing black folks? It’s only a matter of time….