The Alabama rubes have spoken...

...and given the Republican nomination to reactionary religious zealot Roy Moore, who has the distinction of having been twice removed from the Alabama Supreme Court because of his defiance of the law.  (I discuss the circumstances of his first removal on p. 4 of this article.)  Steve Bannon--yeah, that guy--riled up the "rubes" a few days ago to reject the "establishment" candidate favored by the Senate Majority leader, the loathsome and nefarious Mitch McConnell, who increasingly looks like the "adult" in the Republican room.   The happy news is that soon-to-be Senator Moore will make the Republican Senate even more dysfunctional than it already is (and thus more unable to enact the wicked agenda of the imprudent plutocrats), and hopefully hasten the collapse of the Republican Party.  Whatever succeeds it will soon own the benighted states, like Alabama and Texas, making secession ever more likely.  The Civil War is apparently not over yet, though hopefully it will be resolved this time with simple political dissolution.