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In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump's inauguration poem describes Barack Obama as a 'tyrant' [View all]highplainsdem
(61,114 posts)First, see my replies above for another poem he wrote, one that attacks Hillary Clinton, and a column he wrote five years ago attacking Joe Biden.
At the end of that column McKenzie identifies himself as a traditional Catholic. He's apparently, based on my googling, not just a lower-case "traditional" Catholic, but an upper-case Traditional Catholic, a splinter group I wasn't aware of (I haven't been a Catholicc myself for decades).
I found this out via web pages that popped up about infighting in a Traditional Catholic parish, infighting during which McKenzie reportedly created a nasty website called Laypopes.com for posting "anonymous exercises in character assassination" attacking people critical of a bishop he liked.
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=9639
The reason I'm pretty certain this is the same McKenzie who wrote that atrocious poetry idol-worshipping Trump is this section of a discussion of McKenzie and his writing for Laypopes on another page of that Traditional Catholic site:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Joseph-Charles-McKenzie-is-behind-Laypopescom
So this crappy poetry about Trump is written by a reactionary Catholic known for causing trouble with his writings even in his own little splinter group.
And he has, as far as I can discover, zero credibility as a poet. No real history as a poet.