text: The Founding Fathers were Protestants, many of whom were heavily influenced by Deism and anxious to protect the fledgling republic from the carnage of the wars of religion in Europe. Hence the wall of separation between church and state. Political factions anxious to insinuate theology into the civic order fail to respect this fundamental principle of the republic. Trumpism, a white supremacist, ethno-nationalist movement, is not primarily concerned with church-state tensions except insofar as Christianity is a tribal marker for the Euro-American state envisioned by the racist architects of the alt right.
  
  The USCCB is politicized and has been enmeshed with conservative politics for decades, and over 50% of Catholics voted for Trump. Therefore, despite the large minority of Catholics who wanted nothing to do with Trump's agenda, the church overall is in league with Trumpism.
  
  I've never been as certain of what patriotism is as I am this moment.