The recently leaked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign confirm what most political observers have long known: that the liberal establishment is contemptuous of faith, tolerates no dissent, and views Roman Catholicism as a particularly ferocious enemy. Given the left's enthusiastic embrace of big government, this is hardly surprising.
Organized religion provides the most effective bulwark against the modern liberal agenda and traditional faith is the last institutional safeguard against the unmitigated tyranny of the behemoth state. For secular liberals, people of faith represent an obstacle to progress – an impediment to the instant gratification that political solutions can supposedly provide.
Tracing the "psychologies" and "pathologies" of this season's presidential election in her new book, The Year of Voting Dangerously, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd writes that the "fury" of the 2016 electorate is spawning a number of "wildly improbable candidates [for down ballot races] in both parties." Here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one such improbable candidate just announced his intention to seek public office.
