Robert Knight, a columnist for the far right Washington Times and a “fellow” at the American Civil Rights Union (one of those right wing groups that actually promotes the exact opposite of what its name implies), advises the Republican Party that in light of recent polls showing belief in evolution declining in the GOP, the party should now start campaigning on a creationist platform.

Citing a Pew poll which shows that belief in evolution has plummeted in the GOP and is now shared by only a minority of Republicans, Knight told the American Family Association’s One News Now that “Republicans have a great opportunity” to expose the “lies that liberals have told over the years” and begin “questioning evolution more than ever.”

He also warns that a belief in evolution “leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.”