Catholics have been intertwined with US politics for decades
Boss Tweed loved Catholics. Wherever Catholic voters are a key block, they get love. In 2008, Catholics were with Obama because he ignored abortion and under the surface Obama Catholics went with the meme that the pro-life movement was a GOP front. Hillary forgot the lesson, defended partial birth abortion and lost Midwestern Catholics in a ten point shift. Blame them for Trump.
The reason 19th Century politics was anti-Catholic was because the popes were actively against democracy, especially the American sort. John Cortland Murray was persecuted by the hierarchy for his defense of it. At the Council, there was opposition to Dignitatis Humanae. Among the Coucil traditionalists was a certain Polish priest who would later be pope and whose encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, is hardly a paen for freedom of thought. Blaine was wrong, but his reasons were not devoid of truth.
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