Our Hunger for the Right Things

The Catholic Thing · Jul 1, 2026 · 6m

By Francis X. Maier The historian Henry Adams once described politics as "the systematic organization of hatreds," and that's often where we seem to be in these last days before our nation's 250th birthday. As a Wall Street Journal column noted earlier this week, chronic Democratic hatred of Donald Trump, along with Trump's own many "genuine sins and imagined ones, handed the left permission to come unglued," with the result that "radical, dangerous, and merely stupid [ideas] are not only permissible but mandatory" on the growing port side of the Democratic party. Our need to escape from…