What's left of the Republican party needs to sit down and take a moment to ponder the fact that they have, as Mitch McConnell put it, lost the reddest state in the country. Forget the animosity between Trump and McConnell for a moment and just realize the fact that what McConnell said is 100% true. Alabama, Ala-damn-bama, has a Democratic US Senator.
My idiot state representative, who is a Democrat, has been bragging that Alabama is turning blue and Georgia's next. Numerically, she's correct if you look at vote totals, but ideologically the South hasn't changed that much in the last nine years. What has changed is rhetoric, animosity, and separation of the parties into warring factions, each moving further away from the middle leaving the people of this country with choices like we just witnessed in Alabama. Those who think I'm full of it just look at how close John Ossoff, a no-name hyper liberal who "ain't from around here" almost took a congressional seat from a reliably red Atlanta suburb. Now the Trumpettes are screaming that Handel isn't far enough radically right because she doesn't want convicted felons and child molesters left off the NICS due to clerical errors. Hey-suse Christmas, If Karen Handel isn't far enough right that you can support her even if you don't agree with everything she does, then maybe you are part of the problem that gave us Roy Moore, a bible beating, ten commandment posting, horseback riding, drug war loving, First and Fourth Amendment hating probable child molester as the Republican candidate. Good job. Alabama isn't turning blue, it's turning red with embarrassment at what the "New" Trump led Republican Party has created. They wanted anti-establishment, and they got just that. Nothing beats the Bible salesman who hands you a business card with the ichthys on it along with a fake phone number.
Before you start, no, I don't think we need "moderates" or "Rinos". We need conservatives who believe in freedom and prosperity for all Americans through free markets, small government, the protections that the Constitution gives us. We don't need nationalist or sacerdotal theocratic statists changing the meaning of what American conservatism has been from the days of Adam Smith to William F. Buckley, to Justice Scallia.