MSNBC commentators are now urging that it would be undemocratic to refuse to seat or to expel Roy Moore if he wins the election despite voters knowing the accusations full well.
That would certainly confirm the view - entirely correct - of Moore's Trumpist voters that the DC, establishment Republicans hold them and their choices in contempt and regard them as incompetent to properly fill federal offices - entirely correctly.
What's their play?
These Democratic commentators, I mean.
Do they want him to be in the senate?
Why?
Recall that he is safely past any danger from the law.
If he is not rejected by the senate he gets off scot free or way too close to it; mere censure would be an insult to his accusers and all women.
Do the Republicans in DC want to be held accountable in 2018, nationally, for that?
(And maybe that's just what the MSNBC commentators want.)
As for democracy, there is Trump to stare us in the face.
I suppose in reply to the claim that too much democracy gave us Trump it could be pointed out that it did not, that the voters chose Hillary but democracy was, as so often in recent decades, overruled by the Electors who gave us Trump in defiance of the people's clear national preference.
That's true as far as it goes, but who made Trump the GOP nominee?
That was the GOP voters, all on their own, as their enthusiasm for The Duce enabled him to crush 17 more or less establishment, standard issue Republicans in a row to take the prize.
And he had made it clear from the beginning.
Everybody knew just exactly who and what he was.
That process, the process of choosing a nominee, has become far too democratic, and that has exposed us to powerful and dangerous demagogues several times, notably in Alabama.
Remember George Wallace?
Meanwhile, the Democrats' groping scandal has spread from Franken to Conyers.
What will they look like to women in 2018?
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