Roy Moore lost, but his brand of right-wing white populism still dominates the GOP
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Roy Moore lost, but his brand of right-wing white populism still dominates the GOP
Roy Moore lost, but his brand of right-wing white populism still dominates the GOP

By Joe Lowndes

Roy Moore won’t be in Washington next year, after all. But the Republican Party isn’t anywhere near rid of his style of racialized right-wing rhetoric — or of politicians like him.

Exit polls showed that 91 percent of Republicans who voted in Alabama’s special election Tuesday supported the controversial former judge, even as Doug Jones became the first Democrat since 1997 to represent the state in the Senate. Right-wing populism has been an influential force in the GOP for decades, and it’s now dominant. Like former Alabama governor George Wallace — another racial reactionary who never won federal office but still influenced the party — Moore signals the way the Republican Party has been transformed since the civil rights era.

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