The Grad Who Worked for Kamala

I thought about how disappointed a high school alum who worked as the chief aide to Harris must be now that his ticket to the top has lost. Sorry, not sorry. But he’ll land another job, they always do. 

His career well illustrates the parasitical nature of the D.C. swamp: he’s held 9 jobs in 13 years and currently owns the verbose title of: “Special Assistant to the President & Senior Advisor for Congressional Affairs and Strategic Outreach”. 

There are so many “make work” jobs in Washington. Spigots of money froth like the cascades of the Trevi fountain. He spent time as “executive director of the New Democrat Coalition” and another as “political director at Serve America PAC”. Utterly useless. Reminds me of the tens of millions that Kamala’s “consultants” got paid for helping her lose the election. It’s no wonder the Maryland has the highest median income of any state in the country. 

I’m still puzzled by what it would take for Catholics to recognize, en masse, that the Democrat party is not a viable voting option given their stands on abortion, LGBT and trans issues, sex ed and porn in grade schools, deep state targeting of pro-lifers and traditionalist Catholics, etc... I suspect part of it is the Catholic culture at the higher levels understands that the Democrat party is the wing of our government that facilitates our cash cow, in the form of providing millions of dollars to the church in return for settling illegals. 

His own case is probably the same old song: a disaffected fallen-away Catholic who grew up during the disaffected '80s.  And gay. His tweets reveal passion about the wedge issue of the moment: abortion rights after Dobbs, patriotism towards Ukraine, gay rights (it's personal for him, so that might be his own legit belief).  He has a special love for Adam Kinzinger, one of only two people he follows on Bluesky. 

Regardless, my alumni magazine's glad-handing interview with an architect of destruction was eyeopening. Could be ignorance, could be the diocesan culture, could be that I’m just too partisan. 

I looked up a respected old catechism from about 100 years ago, in a less polarized time. It didn't give guidance on Catholic schools providing friendly interviews with Democrats (a much different party back then!)  but it had this to say more generally: 

“And since matters closely connected with the essentials of religion are often the subject of debate, it is the duty of Catholics to vote for such candidates as will act justly in dealing with ecclesiastical questions, and have the interests of the Church at heart. If a Catholic, by giving his vote to a candidate who is hostile to the Church, or by abstaining from voting, makes himself in part responsible for the success of that candidate, he has much to answer for.”