Daily Kos Founder Angry at Conservatives for Anger at Pope

Daily Kos’ founder Markos Moulitsas, known as Kos to his liberal votaries, published a discursive editorial in The Hill on Pope Francis and his purportedly “existential threat to the religious right.” Provocatively titled “The GOP is Losing Religion,” Moulitsas devolves into a litany of logical fallacies, as strawman arguments and kettle logic eviscerate any hope for coherence, let alone consistency.

Premised on a false dichotomy of “true” religion vs. “false” religion, Moulitsas’ argument proceeds to narrate a tale of two cities, bifurcating Catholic parishioners into desirables and undesirables. In plain words, Moulitsas shamelessly suggests that “conservatives” have “co-opted” religion, “making a mockery of central Christian tenets like the Golden Rule and rejection of greed.” Aside from the fact that Moulitsas’ patronizing argument essentializes an entire segment of the population, it also suffers from the No True Scotsman fallacy, a rudimentary flaw in logic that occurs when an argument redefines an entire group to exclude what it perceives to be “undesirable” elements in order to circumvent the use of precise language.