I’ll take a stab at it.
American Catholics don’t like to hear it, but Catholicism till quite recently was utterly hostile to everything America stood for.
The idea of democracy and enforceable human rights as against the State, for instance, emerged in a Protestant nation, England.
Catholicism specifically denounced as heresy the very idea of individual religious freedom up thru at least the latter 19th century.
Catholic religious hierarchy would seem to make the Church more comfortable with secular aristocracy than Protestantism inherently is.
exactly.
America was primarily founded by protestants FLEEING from Catholic countries where they were persecuted.
This is absolutely correct. American Catholicism, although MUCH more “latitudinarian” than European Catholicism, nevertheless usually came from a culture infused with socialism and communalism (France, Italy, Germany, or Ireland). It is a statistical fact, that Tom Sowell shows, that Irish have much preferred to work in government, the police, fire, rather than start businesses. Many of the southern European Catholics arrived seeing the president as no different from a king or dictator and had virtually no understanding of “republicanism.”