George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, was perhaps most famous for his opposition to civil rights.

He was once called “the most dangerous racist in America.” He hired a KKK leader to write his speeches and delivered one with the infamous line, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

He died in 1998 from a cardiac arrest in the part of his body where I assume he once had a heart.

I bring him up because author and preacher Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove posted something worth remembering: When Wallace was in his prime, he was defended by white Christians.

Their argument wasn’t a defense of racism. Rather, they claimed to know him. They knew his heart. They knew his faith. They knew he was a dedicated family man. They believed him to be a decent, fair person. Nothing Wallace said ever swayed them from their conviction that he was a good man.

(Seems pretty familiar to what we experienced with Trump, doesn't it?)