"The teachings have not been repudiated, which would require an act of doctrinal confrontation the movement has no appetite for. They have been pushed out of the nest."

The cuckoos are running the show, in nests that don't even belong to them, but which they've occupied by parasitism."

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"Locate a prominent Trump-era pastor, in either tradition, preaching the rich young ruler without softening the blow of the response Jesus actually gives. Locate a defense of 'love your enemies' delivered between January 2017 and the present in a church whose congregation voted for Trump at eighty percent."

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"Which teachings have been pushed out, specifically? Locate an evangelical sermon delivered between 2016 and 2025 on the Beatitudes as practical ethics rather than devotional decoration. Locate a sustained defense from Catholic Trump voters of Matthew 25, the passage in which Christ identifies himself with the stranger, the prisoner, the hungry, the naked, the foreigner."

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"Trump offered the more potent object. The fact that the sitting pope is now the one calling this out, by name, in direct and unambiguous terms, and that the American Catholic majority remains unmoved by the call, demonstrates the displacement in its purest observable form. The native egg has gone over the side of the nest. The warbler is looking at the cuckoo and feeding it anyway."

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"The American Catholics who voted for Trump are still Catholic. They still attend Mass. They will still receive communion from a priest who answers to the bishop who answers to the pope Trump is attacking. The substrate capture Palmer & Steadman’s mechanism predicts does not require a formal break with the institutional church. It requires only that the public act of communicated acceptance migrate to a more potent object."

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The cuckoo hatchlings then occupy the nest of the birds whose eggs they've pushed out and demand to be fed by the other parents birds.

This is how Trump and his movement have captured white Christians in the US, Brennan says. It's a question of brood parasitism. And it's why so many US Catholics will stick with their God-ordained man despite what the pope himself says:

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"And in many ways, owning in the public sphere, this idea that they are religious voters. Now, the reality is that there's a lot of religious voters."

Edwin Eisendrath responds:

"Have you ever been in a black church? I mean, exactly."

That is, there are all sorts of religious voters. The media and Republicans are fixated on one group — notably white evangelicals — as "the" religious voters who stand for all others.

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"There's a couple of things going on here. One dynamic is that evangelical Christians in particular, particularly conservative evangelicals who are politically active, have taken a posture for decades now that the U.S. government and particularly Democrats do not represent them. And one thing that happened in the 70s, 80s, and particularly the 90s, was this claim of evangelical voters in particular being values voters"

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