White House resident Donald Trump took a few moments off from his usual weekend routine of disappearing to one of his golf clubs for a few days to deliver an address to graduates at Jerry Falwell Jr.'s far-right Liberty University. It's a good time to remind ourselves that Jerry Falwell Jr. is quite possibly the most consistently malevolent mainstream preacher in America today; he's the supposed Jesus Guy who led the evangelical movement into accepting the serial sexual assaulter and misogynist Trump—a rich boor who conspicuously has never done a speck of Christian or non-Christian good for anybody—as being a good and proper vessel for evangelical voters because ... well, that's a good question now, isn't it?

It's partly because Falwell's version of Christianity doesn't seem to depend much on doing actual good. It's partly because Falwell's version of Christianity is one that flirts with a notion that more crooked preachers blurt out outright; if you're rich, it means God doesn't care whether you're a decent man or not. But it is mostly because Falwell is of the opinion that whether or not you are a good Christian is entirely irrelevant, compared to the existential importance of making sure everyone else in America are good Christians whether they want to be or not.

If the man accused of sexual assault by a line of women who once had to deal with him is the path to a Supreme Court that will nationalize Falwell's version of his religion into American law, then that is the path he will take. He is a bad person, and not half the man his father was, and is evidence that the same moral rot that has so consumed the top of our political food chain has done the same to the nation's religious hierarchies as well. No matter what your religion is, if Donald Trump can exemplify its tenets then You Are Doing It Wrong. Not even the Satanists want a piece of this jackass that Jerry Falwell Jr. hoisted to the top of his university’s pedestal.

Anyhoo, all of that is a long buildup to Donald Trump's speech. Donald Trump's speech was the sort of thing a mid-ranking Nazi might belt out to motivate the troops, and if you think I'm being facetious about that then feel free to check the relevant history books.