We’ve been called “Angry, Churchy Millennials Who Scorn Freedom” and told we must be joking. Our crime? To release a political manifesto which combines socialist ideas with Catholic orthodoxy. But the Tradinista movement, which I’m part of, isn’t as outrageous as some people think.
Everyone today knows that the project of global liberalism is failed, whether they realize it or not. Spiritually, emotionally, and materially: failed. It's the the common thread between Michel Houllebecq’s novel Soumission, Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si', Bernie Sanders voters, and the ethnonationalist backlash producing Donald Trump and Brexit. It's the sensation of a problem without a solution; a hole unfilled; a tension unresolved; an itch you can't scratch. But everyone knows.
