When Roy Moore announced on June 20 that he would run again for the Senate in 2020, an array of Republican politicians responded with undisguised scorn. …
Why doesn’t the vehement condemnation of so many prominent Republican politicians necessarily kill off Moore’s electoral chances? The answer is that the distribution of power within the GOP has shifted, allowing a candidate to withstand strong opposition from the party’s traditional leaders. CONT.
David A. Hopkins (Boston College), Monkey Cage