Pete Buttigieg, the most vocally religious of the Democratic 2020 candidates, continues to use his faith as a political cudgel.

Ironically, he told NBC this spring that God doesn’t want to become a “cudgel” to advance an agenda against either Republicans or Democrats. Then, undermining what he had just said, he added that if God had a political party, “I can’t imagine it would be the one that sent the current president into the White House.”