JD Vance ought to be excommunicated

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In celebration of Holy Saturday—not the day of Christ’s crucifixion, nor His Resurrection, but the day He lay dead and no one knew what the hell was going to happen next—a feeling familiar to many of us watching the disastrous second Trump presidency—Vice President JD Vance went to the Vatican. Mr. Vance, who was only baptized and confirmed as a Catholic in 2019, has argued that the Church should turn a blind eye to the Trump administration’s abuses of immigrants and the poor. People are saying that Mr. Vance thought he would meet Pope Francis, presumably so he could hector him for his insufficient devotion to President Donald Trump, but was “snubbed.” Well, I rejoice to hear it. I hope Pope Francis, who has criticized Mr. Trump’s inhumane immigration policies as a “disgrace,” neglected to attend to Mr. Vance because he was too busy drafting an excommunication decree. To honor that occasion, if it does come, we have prepared EXCOMMUNICATE JD VANCE mugs at the Partisan Hex webstore.