Trump et Vance Excommunicandi Sunt

Vaticanum delenda est? Antagonizing the Catholic Church: what a stupid idea Trump and his administration had.

To set the scene properly: American Catholics form the largest single confessional bloc in the United States—some 67 million souls at a bare minimum—and the number keeps swelling thanks to Latino immigration and a steady trickle of converts. We are speaking, of course, of a coherent group marshaled under one centralized institution.

By contrast, America…