In a rare Saturday session in August, the Senate confirmed Brian Burch, cofounder and former president of the pro-Trump advocacy group CatholicVote, as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. By what I presume was coincidence, my email inbox the following Monday was flooded with appeals to subscribe to The Loop, CatholicVote’s daily email newsletter.
The Loop’s come-ons exhibited an instantly recognizable mix of dudgeon, grievance-stoking, and idiosyncratic capitalization—the enervating, executive-ordered style of the political and cultural moment.
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