I personally regret the passing of the late Jerry Falwell.

He united the majority of Americans, by reminding them what was at stake. He reminded them everyday, in everything he did and said, of the kind of myopic, flawed thinking that seeks undermine the notions of an open society. He reminded us that human civilisation is a tenuous affair, a delicate thing, and that vigilance is the price of freedom. He reminded us that even someone like Jesse Jackson, whom so many liberal airheads are keen to invoke in their self-promotion, might just be sympathetic to a white guy from a town called Lynchburg…