Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia appeared on “Pod Save America” this week, where he was asked about comments he recently made in an interview with MSNOW’s Jen Psaki.
“This is how fascists talk,” Warnock told Psaki last month, referring to Vice President JD Vance’s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV. “They tell the people who are faith leaders to stay in your lane. You know, there were a lot of religious leaders during Hitler’s Third Reich.”
Warnock, who is also a Baptist pastor, doubled down during his appearance with host Jon Favreau.
“In my view, JD Vance is one of the most craven politicians on the American landscape,” Warnock said. “Here is someone who literally said that Donald Trump is America’s Hitler. And then he actually ran a campaign to become his running mate. Yeah, he ran a campaign focused on one to be his running mate. So if, if Trump is America’s Hitler and then he campaigned to be his running mate, what does that make JD Vance?”
Warnock continued by calling out Vance’s recent rediscovery of Catholicism, and the cynical performative religiosity exhibited by President Donald Trump and his minions.
“The pope is doing what we need more religious leaders to do,” Warnock continued. “And that is to bring a kind of moral question to who we are and he was literally advocating for peace. Imagine that?”
Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope, has made his feelings clear about his moral opposition to the current administration’s policies at home and abroad. Most recently, the pope declined an invitation to spend July 4th anywhere near Trump and crew, instead choosing to visit Lampedusa, a small Italian island that has long served as a landing point for migrants crossing from Africa into Europe.
You don’t have to be a theologian to understand those actions.
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