The key takeaways from Doug Jones’s victory in Alabama | Corey Robin

Corey Robin looks back at one of the biggest political stories in the week – Doug Jones beating Roy Moore – and highlights the biggest lessons of that victorySince Tuesday’s Senate election in Alabama, when the mild centrist Doug Jones defeated the menacing racist Roy Moore, social media has been spinning two tunes. Politicians tweeted Lynyrd Skyrnyrd’s Sweet Home, Alabama. Historians tweeted the 1934 classic Stars Fell on Alabama.My mind’s been drifting to The Alabama Song. Not the obvious reference from The Doors/Bowie version – “Oh, show us the way to the next little girl” – but two other lines that recur throughout the song: “We now must say goodbye … I tell you we must die.” Continue reading…

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