Roy Moore’s failed run tested white evangelicals’ allegiance to the Republican Party. Would they vote for a candidate who shares their conservative views even though he was accused of sexual misconduct? Preliminary exit polls suggest they did just that.
The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...












