If you want to understand Barr it’s necessary to see where he’s coming from idelogically. I thought the speech he gave at Notre Dame recently was a pretty good insight into who this man is, and why he’s such a passionate follower of Trump. While Trump isn’t religious he’s mounting a strong opposition to progressive ideas.
Barr cannot stand secularist “progressives.” He is an old-time Catholic and he believes, as most religious fanatics do, that anything he does in the cause of forcing his views of how the world works on others, justifies his actions. Now he’s found a President who he can legally justify as having absolute power in enforcing his idea of Catholic morality on everyone else, through a series of laws and preserving a Conservative Supreme Court.
Do you really think he’d feel this way if a secularist, progressive, female President was in office. I think not, he’d be making every legal argument against the President having absolute power.
The foundation of his ideas are not based on an interpretation of the law, but on those put forward by the paternalistic, mysognistic, pedeophilic Catholic Church in which he was raised.
