Americanism’s False Gratitude: The Idolatry of Liberal Democracy
The “Pillar Catholic” portal publishes a piece by Daniel Lipinski, a former “congressman” and modernist apologist, celebrating the American semiquincentennial through the lens of Calvin Coolidge’s 1926 encomium to the Declaration of Independence as a “great spiritual document.” Lipinski laments the collapse of national pride — from 87% in 2001 to 53% today — as a loss of “gratitude,” framing the American founding as the supreme temporal good. The article is a quintessential exercise in the heresy of Americanism, baptizing Masonic naturalism as Catholic piety.
