his slothful son, saying, "catch up!"

I fully expect them to swallow whole the "it was a joke" or "It was me as a doctor" bullshit. Or worse, fully agree with Vance.

that this was an interesting battle. I don't know his religious background, if any, but he tried to conflate the Catholic Right with Evangelicals.

Uh, no. The Evangelicals have no time for Catholics, unless it's for their political benefit/increased power. So many of the hardcore Evangelicals don't even consider Catholics to be Christian.

You're right - strange bedfellows.

They suck.

Shane had a funny line recently about all the Evangelicals eagerly awaiting Jesus’ second coming as Trump works to bring it about:
(Paraphrasing: “finally you guys wiped out that little girls’ school so I could return again to Earth. Been waiting a while for that.”)