Is all this KofC right-wing politics a surprise to anyone?  I'll bet you that most KofC's members voted for the racist, misogynist, fascist, and traitorous Donald Trump.

Most of the wealth of the KofC comes from their low cost insurance programs that they started over a century ago to support Catholic widows and orphans.  As any rapacious Repub would say: the miracle of compound interest adds up.

As long as the KofC is putting money in the holes of the hierarchy they will be tolerated, promoted and supported by the hierarchs - whose first value in life is always MONEY, and never the Gospel.  But, as the history of the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, the Legionnaires of Christ, SSPX informs us, once these secret societies have outlived their utility for the hierarchs, they will be suppressed - and sucked dry of all their wealth.  

Hierarchs will never tolerate real political power in the hands of mere "lay people."  Get real.