shortly after tim kaine had been elected governor of virginia in 2006 a discussion ensued among democratic party leaders about the lessons that could learned from kaines victory some observations were interesting others were not one was particularly off the mark does religion matter in politics the devil is in the details how insurance and catholic lobbyists are trying to help child predators and supportive institutions behind the scenes structurally something similar seems to be happening in reverse that is instead of a situation in which structural disparity results from some sectors failing to develop while other sectors raced ahead we now are fostering structural disparities owing to sectors that are falling backwards out of the modern or postmodern world brexit a cousin of trumpism a distant cousin of fascism