Right on. Fr. Reese's article on the "pickle" of both campaign and church support your equivalence of politics and church(s). Our Church seems in so many ways "trumplike": full of self-contradiction, "I told you so"; greatness through subservience, "only me!"etc.
We have to realize that we can't follow Jesus or find political utopia until and unless we start with Aristotle. There is a remarkable resemblance in passages in Paul to the Cor. and Aristotle's "Ethics". Faith and following Jesus as well as the peace and security of community/state are dependent upon first of all, civility which is a progressive notion from understanding our mutual dependence to friendship through to love.  These are values/virtues and necessities impregnated in humanity by "The Parent".  The Jesus factor is that He goes beyond and instills a divine, cosmic value.
Until and unless we (church, state, family) return to civics/civility infused with discernment we will continue downward. Secular+divine not "war".