David Darmofal
Political scientist. Political behavior + methods. Spatial analysis.
Opinions expressed are my own.
- If you’re Trump, today’s Republican Party lets you do it. They let you just grab a plane.
- There is such a stark difference between Christians, like Popes Francis & Leo, and white “Christian” nationalists like Franklin Graham.
- He could shoot the Emoluments Clause on Fifth Avenue and he wouldn't lose a single supporter.
- I know someone in Ohio who often goes to a restaurant where there's a Trump supporter who's often talking about politics. That Trump supporter this morning is talking about how awful she thinks Pope Leo is. Ohio is never going to stop Ohioing. MAGA is never going to stop MAGAing.
- So often the secular media in the United States want to define American Catholics by folks like JD Vance or Ross Douthat. These too are American Catholics.
- His choice of Pope Leo XIV speaks well because Pope Leo XIII began the Catholic Church's modern social teaching. Pope Francis chose him to be in charge of selecting bishops because he trusted him to pick pastoral men as bishops. Again, he was a missionary in Peru and that's very good too.
- I was really surprised that Trump chose to close down the VOA, given his goals. This news is more in line with his goals: he's going to use the Voice of America to distribute "news" from One America News Network. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- What you'd expect a department run by someone from the WWE to do: Department of Education Eliminates Grant for PBS Children’s Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
- He's had a silence on this?
- They don't even know who the new Pope is going to be because one hasn't been elected and they're already guessing on the Vatican's English feed that he's going to take the name Leo.
