Charlie Pierce: Terrifying that Alabama GOP Voters Picked ‘Lawless, Theocratic Crackpot’ Roy Moore

‘Both Donald Trump and Roy Moore are the products of 40 years of movement conservative Republican politics within the party’

Charlie Pierce: Terrifying that Alabama GOP Voters Picked ‘Lawless, Theocratic Crackpot’ Roy Moore (Mediaite)

Conservatives like Steve Bannon have been taking a victory lapWednesday following the Alabama Senate primary election win by Roy Moore over the preferred mainstream candidate Luther Strange.

Wednesday on All In, Esquire columnist Charlie Pierce railed against the Republican party for empowering people like Moore and President Donald Trump.

“Both Donald Trump and Roy Moore are the products of 40 years of movement conservative Republican politics within the party,” Pierce said. “They were cruising for this particular moment in history and it finally arrived. They deliberately married themselves to fear, bigotry and unreason.”

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