Can millennial and Gen Z Catholics – many identifying as “trads" or traditionalists attracted to the order of the Church against the chaos they see in the modern West – really save the US and other Western nations? Many in the millennial and Gen Z ‘New Right’ have turned against neoliberalism just as they have embraced a more statist and Catholic-infused ideology which has more in common with Viktor Orbán than Ronald Reagan.

As Sam Adler-Bell wrote for the New Republic: “The New Right wants to see Republicans abandon their fealty to free-market dogmas, embrace traditional Christianity, and use the levers of state power to wage the culture war for keeps. Importantly, most of them are Catholic. The Church has always had an allure for conservatives—with its strict rules, hierarchies, and status as an institution bestriding antiquity and modernity.”