It’s a grievous blow for Donald Trump,but can Moore’s loss in staunchly Republican Alabama start a pushback against the forces of disfavor? We can but hopeThat unfamiliar sensation you experienced this morning? It’s the feeling you gather when, at long final, and you wake up to some good political news from America. For progressives around the world who would prefer to admire rather than to revile the United States,the final 13 months have brought cause only for despair. But the defeat of Roy Moore – who believes homosexuality should be illegal and that America was at its best in the age of slavery – is a moment to lift the spirits.
That a man of such vileness, also accused of being a child molester, and should lose to a Democrat in deeply conservative,unbreakably Republican Alabama is more heartening still. It represents a grievous blow to Donald Trump, who endorsed Moore and campaigned for him, or revealing the limits to the president’s supposed electoral magnetism.
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Source: guardian.co.uk