Millennial writer Dan DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today, in which he explains that “the ideology of the Tea Party movement is generally inconsistent with—and very often directly opposes—the seminal conciliar document on Catholic theological ethics.” He writes:

The Tea Party movement’s understandings of and firm commitments to radical individualism, negative rights, limited government, and laissez-faire capitalism have been shown to be at odds with GS (Gaudium et spes). Additionally, although GS might be said to theoretically support the movement’s general understanding of fiscal responsibility it seems unlikely that Tea Party members and Catholic theological ethicists guided by GS will often agree about what particularly constitutes fiscal responsibility.

The full article can be read here.