When you’ve delivered a pounding blow to your opponent, there’s only one thing to do next: keep pressing your advantage forward. Tuesday night’s epic victories were sweet indeed, but our work has only just begun. To set our great country back on its rightful path, there are many more elections we must win, and many more Republicans we must strive to defeat.
Next among them is Roy Moore, which is why we are proud to endorse Democrat Doug Jones in next month’s special election for the Senate in Alabama.
Since you are reading this post, odds are you are already familiar with Moore, who was twice booted off Alabama’s Supreme Court for defying the law, once when he refused to remove a monument of the 10 Commandments from the court grounds and a second time when he tried to resist the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling making same-sex marriage the law of the land. But Moore’s hostility to bedrock American values cannot be repeated often enough. He’s the man who:
… among many, many other wretched things. And atop of his naked bigotry is the cloud of corruption, as Moore has personally collected over $1 million for half a decade’s worth of “part-time” work for his own private charitable foundation. It’s hard to imagine someone less suited to serving in the United States Senate than he.
We are exceptionally fortunate that Moore has drawn a stiff challenge from a very worthy opponent. Doug Jones is a former U.S. attorney who served under Bill Clinton and is justly famous for prosecuting the KKK terrorists who dynamited a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and murdered four young girls aged 11 through 14. As was so common in the aftermath of white supremacist violence in the South then, the perpetrators escaped justice for decades, but Jones successfully prosecuted two of the killers in 2001 and 2002 and has proudly run campaign ads highlighting this accomplishment.
And Jones would serve his constituents well if he ends up in Washington. Remarkably for a statewide candidate running in Alabama, he’s pro-choice, believes we need to address climate change, supports the DREAM Act, and wants to fix Obamacare, not repeal it. But you can bet, with sensible views like these, he's come under heavy fire—and Alabama is still Alabama. It may no longer be possible for any Democrat to win a Senate race here.
But we have to try. If an upset were ever going to happen, now would be the time: a strong Democrat, a lunatic Republican, and a political environment that is as hostile to the party in the White House as it gets. And while we can't spare any time dreaming about victory, a win here would shake the GOP to its core.
There’s more than just politics at stake here, though. We also have a moral imperative to take a stand against Moore, no matter the odds. He’s not merely a conservative we oppose on policy grounds. He's a spewer of vile hatred whose very presence in the public sphere inflames fellow bigots against the most vulnerable members of our society. It’s incumbent on us to say—loudly, clearly, and with our pocketbooks—that Moore is unacceptable.
So please donate $3 today to help send Doug Jones to the Senate and Roy Moore to retirement, once and for all.