Alabama is much more than a victory, it's a call to arms.
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The stunning Democratic victory in Alabama will only cause the right to dig in deeper. They are incapable of introspection; witness the last time they went down in defeat in 2012 and vowed to look deeply at themselves. They were implored by their own leaders to not become the party of crazy. What did they do instead? They doubled down and became even crazier.
Much to the shock of the sane contingent in America, the Republicans were actually rewarded for it. The craziest of the crazy came out to vote in droves, finally feeling free to express their racism and misogyny in public again. Just like back in the 1950s when America was Great™, women were barefoot and pregnant, and blacks were washed off the streets with water cannons like just so much street garbage. Those were the good old days to these guys.
The ultimate reward for their circle-jerk of hatred and bigotry was so-called President Donald J. Trump. Ironically, kids of the fifties and sixties spent time under their schools desks, ducking and covering against the ever-impending threat of nuclear annihilation via Soviet nuclear missiles. Now, the MAGA™ president is clearly viewed as a Russian puppet, with the duck and cover threat shifted by just a couple of longitude lines.
Let's hope Democrats don't spike the football and go home, high-fiving at their stunning come-from-behind victory. Combined with the Ralph Northam victory in Virginia (full disclosure; I did independent expenditure work on the Northam campaign), there is clearly momentum. But momentum is not the same as perpetual motion. We need to treat this victory like a shot of B-12 with a Red Bull chaser.
The ENTIRE House of Representatives is up for re-election on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. This is our chance to truly make America great again, and tell the right wing extremists, and the greedy .1%, "no more!" No Moore was a good start.
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