Editorial: Is Roy Moore's defeat the beginning of the end of Trumpism? Probably not
by The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2017
3 minutes
The contentious U.S. Senate race in Alabama is a source of both encouragement and dismay in near-equal measure. The good news, of course, is that Democrat Doug Jones, an out-of-nowhere former prosecutor, beat former Republican state Chief Justice Roy Moore in an election for U.S. Senate that hung on issues of character. Moore's character, to be specific, following credible allegations that he had, while in his 30s, sought relationships with much younger women, many of whom he met while trolling a local shopping mall.
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