Again, I don’t think so... Establishment can pick a better target for their counter attack..... and Moore was a poor choice if that was where you wanted to start to change the narrative, anyone with even a tertiary understanding of AL Politics would have told your Moore was winning that primary handily and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY was going to change that....
IF that was their end game they could have picked another place to have that battle.... Where they had a shot at winning... this one was NEVER winnable for the Establishment, yet they went ALL IN on a prayer... I think its something bigger, while I agree they want to stop the populist tide that Trump rode to the White House... I think stopping Moore was more than just that.... Something else is going on here.
We think its several things one of which was the Pro forma thing but also, if elected, Moore could be the religious version of Rand Paul. Don't forget that Ted Cruz was considered a pariah in the Senate for standing up against the GOPe. Together he joins a list of independent, read uncontrollable too, senators. If they get there heads together and they add a few more to their ranks, like Blackburn for Corkers seat in 18', a coalition of the right begins to build while Trump is in office and threatens, mcTurtle, the deep states GOPe leader in the Senate. Lose McTurtle and the deep states grip slips a little more along with the control of the Senates agenda.
Call my friends and I simpletons but we think it's connected to the GOPe and deep states hold on power for sure and since turnover in the Senate has a tendency to occur slower than the House it's always been the avenue to slow and/or oppose something that the deep state didn't want passed, therefore thwarting the will of the people and the house of representatives.