Pragmatic Trump probably knew that Roy Moore would be a lightning rod in the Senate, thereby one of the big reasons he supported Luther Strange in the senatorial primary, but the Tea Party drove Moore to the primary victory, not aware of what was to come with the orchestrated and unproven allegations against Roy Moore from forty years ago, resulting in a depressed rural conservative Alabama vote on Tuesday. So the Tea Party, which boosted Trump to the presidency, is still going strong, only depressed for a moment by the smears against Roy Moore.
