by ALEXANDER NAZARYAN
BARN BURNER When Bannon spoke at a rally in Alabama for Moore, days before the election, he avoided the red-meat issues the crowd seemed to hunger for and talked instead about economic nationalism.
Photograph by GREG KAHN
THE RALLY IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA, OPENED WITH prayer, a furious verse from Psalm 5 hurled at enemies of the Lord: “Their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave.” These messengers of malice were also presumably the enemies of Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court then running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Foremost among those enemies was The Washington Post, which had recently published the accounts of several women accusing Moore of extremely disturbing sexual misconduct with underaged girls. But they also included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who’d equivocated in his support of Moore, and Richard Shelby, the senior Alabama senator who’d taken his turn as Judas by declaring on national television that he would “absolutely not” vote for the fiery jurist.