Gerson has been magnificent. But it is strange that Winters should lionize him here without acknowledging that Gerson was a primary architect of the rhetoric & views of George W. Bush which the Civilta article attempts to link with the broader "ecumensim" that it criticizes. Indeed, several of the most prominent Catholic conservatives who were influential in the Bush Administration have been some of the most vocally anti-Trump. That's one of the weaknesses in both the Civilta article & in this piece. If one only read the part of the Civilta article dealing with Bush, one would think that Gerson would be one of the primary targets. It was Gerson, afterall, who contributed the "axis of evil" concept into Bush's rhetoric.