To be fair, all those chanting 'anathema' to Trump for being pro-homo, should also criticize Putin for the same thing. Putin is pro-homo, just not for kids.
Surely you'll acknowledge that fairness ought to be a two-way street. Granted, people get carried away rather regularly hereabouts with regard to both praise and denunciation, but the gist of what the comments above are saying is that even from the perspective of Realpolitik (i.e., a restricted secular perspective), Trump's poorly formed character and his woeful ignorance of the spiritual and cultural dimensions essential to a proper exercise of statecraft have hobbled him severely. Anyone who has paid even a modicuм of attention to world affairs during the past twenty years ought to grant, however reluctantly, that measured on any scale of character or cultivation, Putin's intellectual capacity and evident awareness of subtle moral distinctions, in combination with his insight and sheer political cunning, have allowed him to detect the admittedly infrequent opportunities to do good and take more than occasional advantage of them.
Happily for opponents of totalitarianism, there are some limits to what both Trump and Putin can do. To take one area that a serious Catholic might deem unfortunate, the large, powerful, and radically unassimilable non-Christian and nonwhite populations of both countries create inherent instabilities that no secular leader could ever manage to a Catholic's satisfaction. Yet all except Trump's knee-jerk admirers must see that he has bungled innumerable opportunities to make the United States a stabler and more Christian country, so much so that scorn is surely the most appropriate response to claims that we Catholics are lucky to have him. That we might have had and perhaps soon will have a far, far worse presidential administration is no reason for us to shelve our capacity to weigh and assess what we have now.
At best, the USA is a natural law/Protestant country … [w]hile Russia used to be Catholic. … The expectations for the USA to suddenly turn Catholic with a marginally-Protestant president is the logical fail of many. Russia and Europe gave up their Catholicity …
Again, be fair. Russia was never a Catholic country, even in the limited sense that Greece or Bulgaria might be called a formerly Catholic country. That statement will, I suggest, be readily borne out by an examination of the history of the various peoples and territories that have composed, first, the historical Russian Empire of the five centuries before the Bolshevik Revolution, then the Soviet Union, and now the vastly smaller and more Russian Russia of the post-Gorbachev era. Given the dramatic—indeed brutal and chaotic—character of that history, it is hardly surprising that the personal intervention of the Mother of God has become an essential factor in Russia's prospective conversion.
… You can point to the beautiful churches being built in Russia as better than the US, but that's part of their culture/history, while the USA has none of that.
Blame volition, not culture or history!
Yes, the churches being built in Russia are more beautiful and, what is plainer still, more conducive to spiritual contemplation and Divine worship than their US counterparts. This is so, however, because in Russia, the people who want new churches and the people who finance them engage architects who are willing to cooperate in their religious aims, however less than fully or truly Catholic those aims may be. In the United States, on the other hand, the only religion recognized as adequate to the needs of contemporary
man multigendered humans is the worship of the Jєωs. Is it any wonder that new US churches look like movie theaters and ѕуηαgσgυєs?
… yet Putin is considered better than Trump, morally? There's little difference.
Perhaps the differences are indeed small. Similarly small, however, are the chromosomal differences between a human and a dachsund. Put otherwise, whatever differences there are have produced one man who has acted as a credible force for peace in the world and an imperfect but consistent exponent of Christian belief and a second man who has handed the management of US policy over to his Jєω-convert daughter and her Israeli Jєωιѕн husband and who prefers bandying insults on social media to the politically unpopular work of protecting this country from domination by parasitical Jєωs and from ongoing invasion by Christ-hating Third Worlders.
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