BY JOE CONASON Whenever a politician insists too much on his own pious morality – and his duty to impose that particular brand of morality on everyone else – the safest prediction is that sooner or later, a scandal will emerge. For Roy Moore, the former judge now running to fill Jeff Session’s Senate seat, the revelations about his past remained hidden for decades, while he constantly proclaimed his righteousness from a perch atop the […]

An Acid Test For The Self-Righteous Right
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