Welcome to another edition of This Fucking Guy, the show where we picked one guy who's made America worse and explain why they suck.

I'm Aaron Ryan, host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast.

And I'm Alyssa Mastro Monaco, the other host of Crooked Media's hysteria podcast.

Alyssa, have you ever looked around at this hellscape of white Christian nationalism we're living in and wondered, who did this?

Have you ever cringed

at the smug yet condescending affect of GOP politicians like Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson and wondered,

why are they talking like that? Have you ever wondered how so-called American Christians have

twisted the message of Jesus away from one of love for the poor and afflicted and toward hate for things that aren't even mentioned in the Bible, like abortion and gay marriage?

And have you thought, who would have the balls to take on this rebrand?

All the time. It's weird to live in a day and age when the worst kind of self-proclaimed Christians who work inside the American government feel so comfortable with their nutbaggery that they don't even feel the need to code switch.

Well, today we're going to get into that question, who fucking did this by embarking on a bit of a history lesson?

Because there's one fucking guy who arguably built the political power of scared religious nuts, brick by brick.

He's the reason the phrase, there's no hate like Christian love, is so salient.

He's one of the main reasons that white American evangelicals are so fucking annoying to this day,

Jerry Falwell.

Of course. He was a slimy televangelist, TV personality, a scheming political organizer,

Bob Evans Amletelette enthusiast,

erstwhile amusement park executive, tinky-winky critic, university president, anti-feminist,

segregationists, but most importantly, he was full of shit.

I can think a few people who were less Christ-like than Jerry Falwell. He targeted vulnerable and lonely people to raise funds

that are used to enrich the Falwell family to this day. His home for unwed mothers was basically

a baby trafficking operation meant to bully desperate women into giving up their babies for adoption

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