The American Catholics I know intend to vote Trump, not because they feel affection for him or many of his policies but because they have had years of the Obama administration undermining freedom of conscience and they know that Hillary Clinton would erode it still further.
It is also important to understand that life issues are an essential voting matter there, in contrast to here, where even among Catholics there is a kind of tacit admission that the battle over abortion is either lost or ought not be engaged at the level of parliamentary elections as a defining issue. Mrs Clinton’s support for partial-birth abortion and abortion on demand for late-term babies is enough to disqualify her for many devout American candidates. How you treat the most vulnerable members of your society and the very future of your race must be a political issue.
