Barr is, above all, a conservative Catholic. He believes in a single, immutable truth. The paradox is that he works for a man who, like a good Stalinist, thinks that truth is whatever serves power. How can this be? How can this strange relationship last?
It’s a marriage of convenience with a limited shelf life, but it works for now because the two have common enemies. The Savonarola wannabe sees blue people as the ideological enemy; Trump hates them because they’re in his way.