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No, the Right Doesn't Hate the New Pope. They Hate His Jesus.
The Catholic Church chose Robert Prevost as its new pope in the wake of the recent passing of Pope Francis.
And let’s just say, there was no joy in MAGAville at the news.
In a matter of minutes after the selection was announced, Prevost, who has taken the title Pope Leo XIV, was being virtually crucified by Trump surrogates, Right-wing pundits, Fox News hosts, and rank-and-file America First cultists, who all took to social media en masse in performative histrionics of protest.
But it’s critical to be clear on what is happening here: these Conservatives don’t despise Pope Leo, as they had…
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