Religious Right groups did everything they could to help the Republican Party this year: They flooded churches with biased 'voter guides' that backed GOP candidates and pursued a 'data-driven strategy.' The Faith & Freedom Coalition, a group founded and run by former Christian Coalition operative Ralph Reed, boasted that it would spend $18 million to target 125 million 'social conservative voters' in 19 states.

From the beginning, it was clear that the Religious Right’s only concern was to push Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination through. Prof. Christine Blasey Ford, and by extension the other women who were empowered to come forward with their stories of sexual assault, meant nothing to them.

Notice one thing about all of the comments by these self-appointed guardians of morality: Not one of them has expressed one iota of concern for what happened to Ford. Her trauma and pain mean nothing to them, nor does the considerable risk she undertook by stepping forward to tell her story.