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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP Nightmare Is Just Beginning
December 14, 2017 at 11:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard
McKay Coppins: Roy Moores stunning defeat Tuesday night was met with quiet sighs of relief throughout the GOP establishment, where the culture-warring ex-judge and accused child abuser was widely regarded as radioactive. Yet even as Moores political obituaries were being written, party strategists were bracing for the army of Moore-like insurgents they expect to flood next years Republican primaries.
Indeed, Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon has already pledged to field challengers for every incumbent Republican senator up for reelection next year (with the exception of Ted Cruz). And even if Bannon fails to deliver on his threat, many in the GOP worry that experienced, fully-vetted candidates are going to struggle to beat back a wave of rough-edged Trump imitators who lean into the white identity politics that the president ran on in 2016.
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The GOP Nightmare Is Just Beginning (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2017
OP
Roy Moore clones running for Senate in all contests? Fuck, we may get 60 Senators.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2017
#3
Good. Run far right candidates that win primary's, then have no chance in the general.
bearsfootball516
Dec 2017
#6
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. They've earned it.
unblock
(52,253 posts)5. i hope the damage can be contained to just their party.
sadly, i don't think that will be the case.
hate radio, foxnews, and republican leaders from gingrich to donnie have been doing serious damage to the fabric of american society.
we're at a dangerous crossroads, and the republican party taking a severe beating in 2018 and even 2020 doesn't mean the underlying problems go away.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. "army of Moore-like insurgents"
Hopefully that destroys their anti american party forever.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)3. Roy Moore clones running for Senate in all contests? Fuck, we may get 60 Senators.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)4. It'll be more difficult for us
to keep track of it all when we're back with dial up internet.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)6. Good. Run far right candidates that win primary's, then have no chance in the general.
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)8. Wear him
like a millstone around your neck Roypublicans.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)9. I love the line above in the OP...
"Except Ted Cruz."
Yeah Teddy is already batshit insane enough for Steve Bannon.