Post #2829102
2026-04-19 13:02 UTC
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:
#PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2026-04-19 13:03
"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." #PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism /3
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@RainbowFrog@mastodon.top 2026-04-19 13:05
@wdlindsy@toad.social wow, very nice analogy... seems... appropriate 🤔