Throne and Alt-right

Bill Barr and Catholic conservatives are working from a very old playbook

Notre Dame has a law school the apparent purpose of which is to create a feeder stream for high court appointments that will advance a theocratic agenda. That would be a fair assumption in any case (Amy Coney Barrett teaches there, for God's sake), but Attorney General/Trump co-conspirator Bill Barr’s speech there on Friday made it obvious.

The speech w…