While I chose to overlook your initial post, I will address your current inquiry regarding Fr. Hewko's assertion.

I provided videos where Fr. Hewko discusses his stance on voting, including his condemnation of both hαɾɾιs and Trump. If you have not yet taken the time to watch them, I encourage you to do so to fully understand his position. The sources and reasoning are there, and it's crucial to approach this matter with diligence.

Ok, so if one's vote doesn't matter, then there's no situation where voting can be a 'mortal sin'.

You can't have it both ways.  You can't argue a) "Oh, I'm not going to vote because it's all controlled".  and also b) "If you vote for X, then it's a mortal sin."

Intent matters, if you pull the trigger of an empty gun you still committed mortal sin.

What if Trump is just practicing "the ends justify the means" and saying what he THINKS he needs to say, to get enough votes so he can get into office?
His softening on Abortion, support for LGBT, even his support for Israel, etc.?

Here is my interesting theory -- feel free to discuss.

We should judge (and vote for) Trump as a KNOWN QUANTITY looking mostly at WHAT HE HAS DONE -- given that he was, in fact, president for 4 years.
Talk is cheap. Actions speak louder than words. Could a Catholic vote for Trump based on his actions?

Imagine if someone said, "We can't vote for Trump. We can't let that man have the nuclear codes." I'd be like, "Um....how do I say this...he was president for 4 years already." The same for any other extreme fear porn his enemies might throw out there. Trump WAS president already for a whole term. Trump is not a scary unknown quantity. Not after his first term was served, that is.

AT THE VERY LEAST, Trump personally having the morality "The ends justify the means", while it's not morally valid, it's certainly not bad enough to forbid Catholics from voting for him under pain of mortal sin. Know what I mean?

To play devil's advocate here, let's see if voting for Trump could be justified by a good Catholic...

What a good Catholic would be VOTING FOR by pulling the lever for Trump is another 4 years of Trump as we actually experienced 2016-2020. You know, great economy, more respect on the world stage, tightening of abortion restrictions, reining in of unrestricted illegal immigration (from all countries) over the mexican border, fighting cнιℓd тrαffιcking, appointing of countless conservative (rather than highly liberal) judges, reversing of any/all communist "Green" climate change agendas, opening up of oil drilling, etc., and no new wars/police actions/military operations.

Yes, Trump didn't get to finish. Remember he was persecuted for many of those 4 years, which kind of throws a monkey wrench in the works, no matter how good you are. Also, he only had 4 years to undo decades of problems. It takes time to "build the wall". Trump most certainly kept his promise. But he only had so much support, and a few short years.

I think it would be justified for a Catholic to make an argument along these lines.

Of course.  But all this presumes that voting for Trump is wrong to begin with...which has not been proven.  I contend that voting for him (whether the election is rigged or not) is not a mortal sin.  There's plenty of "goods" that can happen due to his presidency.

Pike specifically foretold that the antichrist will come from the right, as a reaction to the extreme nihilism, degeneracy, atheism and chaos wrought by the left.
Regardless of whatever techno utopia the elites desire, who are themselves tricked by the father of lies, the devil has but one agenda, to harvest as many souls as possible for his infernal kingdom.
Those on the left already belong to his kingdom. It's those who still identify as Christian, hold to traditional concepts of Christian morality, that he most desires. And for this reason I think Trump serves as an archetype of sorts for the
antichrist about to come. He will promise peace and prosperity right at the moment when the world is most lost and confused.
Satan achieves a foothold in our lives by one small compromise after another. Most Catholics/Christians I know took the jab, multiple jabs, due to Trump. No way they would have takin it if Hillary had been president.
Likewise these very same people will blindly follow Trump when he attacks Iran.

Ok but I don’t think it’s a damnable sin to have taken the jab.  So where did satans foothold happen here?  Those who got the jab are definitely stupid but if they didn’t jeopardize salvation, then satan didn’t gain anything. 


Supporting any war nowadays depends on which propaganda you listen to/believe.  Hard to say what true or false.  God isn’t going to damn anyone for being duped by next-level/intelligence experts who spew lies for a living.  Again, Satan wins nothing from this.

Your comments about the antichrist are valid.  But your connection with him and these 2 political examples fails.