Sweet home, Alabama.
Where the votes were so blue.
Sweet home, Alabama.
Doug Jones is representing you.
From the Lynyrd Skynyrd song
So, in the end, Bannon’s gamble failed. The PBPs in Alabama couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Moore, and he lost, albeit barely.
It would be a mistake to read too much into this. Moore was a uniquely, remarkably bad candidate. Even at that, he almost won.
Will it result in a course correction? Of course not. Trump will probably conclude that the margin of defeat was people voting illegally, and step up his voter suppression efforts. That’s about the only course correction you can expect.
It will, however, be fun to watch the Bannonite Reactionaries and the McConnellite PBPs savage each other for the next week or so.