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Roy Moore Is Pure Steve Bannon
« on: November 16, 2017, 05:46:32 pm »
By Rich Lowry
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/15/roy-moore-is-pure-steve-bannon-215831

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Roy Moore is the Steve Bannon project in a nutshell.

For the former Trump operative, the Alabama Senate candidate’s tattered credibility is a feature, not a
bug. If Moore had well-considered political and legal views, good judgment and a sterling reputation,
he’d almost by definition be part of the establishment that Bannon so loathes. Since Moore has none
of those things, he’s nearly an ideal representative of the Bannon insurgency.

Events in Alabama make it clear that Bannon’s dime-store Leninism—burn everything down, including
perhaps the Republican Senate majority—comes at a considerable cost. In this project, the truth doesn’t
matter, ethics don’t matter, and standards don’t matter. Being anti-establishment is an escape clause
from personal responsibility, and #war means proudly defending the indefensible.

Once you’ve devoted time and energy building up the career of white nationalist-fellow traveler Milo
Yiannopoulos the way Bannon did at Breitbart, there is nothing that you aren’t willing to do . . .

. . . If Moore were in the Senate, he’d presumably be a reliable Republican vote like any other Alabama
senator. The only difference is that he hates McConnell. Is that worth the reputational risk to the party
of being associated with such a compromised figure? If there is a new Republican Senate leader in the
next Congress, he sure as hell isn’t going to be a bomb-thrower (Senate leaders never are). So what’s
the point?

Apparently to find an unbelievably checkered collection of Senate candidates, and to put Senate seats
at risk by nominating them, no matter what their electoral appeal or vulnerabilities. Steve Bannon
wants as many Roy Moores as possible.

(Disclosure: Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review.)


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