Somehow during all the scandals and horrors arising from the Bush-era employment of Blackwater mercenaries, I missed the disturbing fact that Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Betsey DeVos’ brother. Prince is horrifying. If you don’t remember Blackwater, they were the model for the worst villains on the subversive Jericho. These days, they’ve been twice rebranded — first as “Xe,” then as “Academi” — in an attempt to distance themselves from the disgrace and liability stemming from their My Lai-ish massacre in Baghdad in 2007.

The jackboots-for-hire mogul behind all of that paramilitary profiteering is part of the DeVos clan — the multilevel marketing empire that provides generous, but highly conditional, funding for many mainstream white evangelical institutions. Six degrees of Kevin Bacon is fun. Two degrees of Erik Prince is the stuff of a dystopian nightmare.