The GOPe weenies are scared and feel so threatened they feel they have been backed into a corner so are striking out. The only problem is they and their handlers are so ignorant they are locked into decades of the GOPe tactics. They have nothing in their playbook but rolling over and conceding at the hint problems and they think it will still work.
These leftists calling themselves conservatives have spent decades worming their way into the highest echelons of public service and then entrench themselves to make money, gain power and influence, and build their pathetic egos.
It is a game to them and they sincerely believe they are better than the people they are supposed to be serving. The game has changed, we are not as ignorant as they think, and they have nothing in their bag of tricks to stop it.
Moore would be a different kind of Senate Maverick.