text: We have always known that the GOP was a coalition of religious and cultural conservatives (the Ecumencism of Hate) and the financial libertarians who take advantage of the prosperity gospel to pass tax legislation that makes the rich richer and their Republican comrades poorer.
  
  Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t, depending on where the Catholic vote goes. Trump convinced Catholic hierarchs that he was the real deal on abortion. They are easy to convince because for decades, every promise has gone unkept. The jury is out on Gorsuch, but the fact that he is reported as razzing Pence for his pro-life views shows that, yet again, the pro-life movement has been had (a question Pew did not address).