Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

I don't think Catholics are the problem. I know this is Devon Stack's take...that 20th Century Catholic immigrants conspired with jews to bring WASP America low....but if one looks more closely at *which* Catholics teamed up with jews, the analysis gets clearer. I was planning to write a labor-intensive Epoast on this topic, but instead I'll just drive-by the mfer. There were four major Catholic strains that immigrated to the US...Irish, German, Italian, and Polish. If you do a historical dive on the Catholic-jew political alliance in the US, you find an inordinate number of the Catholic surnames are Irish. One can therefore infer that this was less a Catholic desire to upend WASPness, and more an example of an age-old ethnic conflict -- Irish vs English -- continuing by another name in a new land. Seen through that lens, it becomes obvious why Irish Catholics expediently teamed up with jews...both wanted to kneecap the White English-ancestry power structure of America. By way of contrast, the anti-immigrant Know Nothing Party was formed by a jew in the 1840s, and its main agenda was stopping Catholic immgration to the US by appealing to (justifiable) nativist sentiments in English-Americans. Why? Well, because back then, White Catholics, especially from continental Europe, were the leading anti-semites of the day. And jews damned well knew this.