For an 88-year-old man who has spent only five days in the United States and doesn’t speak English, Pope Francis is a surprisingly partisan observer of American politics. For most of his life he was, like a typical Argentinian, viscerally but vaguely anti-American.
Robert McElroy’s nickname among Catholic conservatives is ‘the wicked witch of the west’
But by the time he became Pope in 2013 both he and the Democratic party had embraced the ideology of the globalist left.
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