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Right-Sizing the Power of Republican Insurgents
The GOP must learn from the Alabama loss: Trump and Bannon are not indomitable.
Back to Earth.
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Republicans have lost a safe Senate seat in Alabama. Oh, Roy Moore is refusing to concede, but those better in touch with reality are aware that it’s over.
Alabama! This is like losing an election where the electorate consists of your mother. It is one of the most incredible own-goals in American electoral history. It is the political equivalent of watching the captain of the Titanic deliberately steer the ship into an iceberg, while many of the passengers wildly cheer.