Some Republicans have been forced to back away from Roy Moore, but the far right and its echo chamber are still all in for the Alabama Senate nominee following revelations about his past pursuit and assault of teen girls. Establishment Republicans like Mitch McConnell might worry that it’s a bad look to be seen supporting a child molester. But to the Breitbart wing of the Republican Party, McConnell is a piker who’s just showing why he should be removed as Senate majority leader—how can he not see that claiming momentum for 2018 is a higher goal than avoiding becoming the party of child molestation?
“We admit our biases,” Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said. “I’ll tell you that we would like to see a populist, nationalist, America-first conservative get elected.”
“There are so many people who want Judge Moore to not become the senator from Alabama, and it’s not just Democrats, it’s the Republican establishment, it's the media establishment,” he said. “And what happens in Alabama, either side is going to use it to claim momentum heading into 2018. It's a hugely significant race.”
Whew. “Populist, nationalist, America-first conservative.” How many euphemisms for racist can you get into one sentence?
Rep. Mo Brooks, who lost to Moore in the Senate primary, similarly says that getting Moore’s Senate vote on things like a border wall and theocratic Supreme Court justices outweighs any thought of the teen girls Moore sexually assaulted:
“America faces huge challenges that are vastly more important than contested sexual allegations from four decades ago," Brooks said in a text message to AL.com. "Who will vote in America's best interests on Supreme Court justices, deficit and debt, economic growth, border security, national defense, and the like? Socialist Democrat Doug Jones will vote wrong. Roy Moore will vote right. Hence, I will vote for Roy Moore."
And this isn’t just some wispy little fringe. Lots of Republicans think this way—shoot, Mitch McConnell thinks this way right up until he thinks that staying on that path endangers his objectives. The question is how many Alabama voters will think this way as they stand in the voting booth.
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