Alabama's message to Trump: We will drain the swamp with or without you. Trump supported the slimy swamp candidate, seems to have battered wife syndrome vs GOP Establishment. He keeps coming back for more humiliation believing eventually they'll be nice to him. It will never happen-John Nolte, Breitbart...(Memo to Deep State: Your problem isn't Trump, it's us)

Trump seems have battered wife syndrome regarding the GOP Establishment. He keeps coming back for more beatings: "There is simply no lie the Republican establishment will not tell, no back they will not stab." And..."If Trump has not learned the lesson of Alabama, the movement certainly has--that we don't need Trump in order to obtain victories for Trumpism." Final, NY Times: Roy Moore 54.6, Luther Strange 45.4

9/26/17, "Nolte: Alabama’s Deafening Message–The Movement Is About Trumpism Not Trump," Breitbart, John Nolte

"With the results now clear in Alabama’s hotly-contested U.S. Senate Republican primary race, the unambiguous message coming from the GOP voters responsible for Roy Moore’s underdog victory is clear-cut — a crucial reminder to everyone that Trumpism is not about any one person. More importantly, what this humiliating loss tells President Trump is that Trumpism is not even about him. The indisputable lesson here for the president is that even he, the man who started the movement, is not bigger than the promises, ideas, agenda, and platform he ran on. 

Yes, Trump ran on specifics such as a border wall, the repealing of Obamacare, and tax cuts. Trump’s existential promise, though, the overall rationale for his insurgent campaign, was all about “draining the swamp,” or taking the fight to the DC establishment — not just within the corrupt national media and the cancerous Democrat Party, but also within the Republican Party, which, as we have seen over the last eight months, is no better than the others.

By fully backing Luther Strange, the poster boy for everything his very own movement despises, Trump defiantly violated his existential promise to us, the promise to drain the hideous DC swamp. 

In a different world, in a world where, for the last eight months, while in complete charge of the federal government, the Republican Party actually delivered on its promises; in a fantasyland where the GOP did not expose itself as a gang of feckless cowards unwilling to keep even the Obamacare repeal promise that defined the party’s existence for seven years, maybe Trump could have gotten away with supporting a Luther Strange.

But that is not the world we live.

The reality is that the GOP chose instead to use their once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity to pander to media hoaxes and Democrats, to launch countless investigations against Trump and to push for citizenship for millions of illegal Democrats.

Had the Republican Party actually honored the national mandate Trump’s 2016 victory called for, Trump supporters might have come to believe that the president had somehow managed to fix the GOP, to give the spineless a spine. In that case his support for a Luther Strange might not have felt like such a mistake…and betrayal.

Here is a another lesson the president should have not been forced to learn through tonight’s defeat…

That when a Republican Swamp Creature leans over and whispers its rancid breath in your ear… 

"Just come on board this one time. Just play the game a little bit. Not only will the media like you more, not only will we like you more, we will repeal Obamacare for you. See, it is all about relationships, going along to get along… That’s how DC works. Become one of us and we will give you everything you want."

…That is not a promise, it is a trap--a call for the believer to sail right into the rocks and commit political suicide.

You see, there is just no reasoning with professional con men and grifters. There is no compromising with those who have knowingly spent the last seven years hustling their own supporters. There is no bargaining with narcissistic vampires willing to sell their rotted souls for acceptance within the coven that is the mainstream media. There is simply no lie the Republican establishment will not tell, no back they will not stab.

With the 2018 midterms coming, another historic political opportunity looms, an opportunity for the movement to repeal and replace even more of the Republican establishment. 

And if Trump has not learned the lesson of Alabama, the movement certainly has — that we do not need Trump in order to obtain victories for Trumpism."

Above, Alabama map results, 9/26/17 GOP primary runoff, NY Times
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3 among comments to above at Free Republic: 
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"This is a good sign that nationalism and draining the swamp is bigger than one man (Trump).

Voters get it. They don’t want more do-nothing RINOs to give lip service to voters and who quickly join the swamp.
We need to clear the biggest RINOs out in primaries state by state.
We the people have the votes, the numbers, and the power.
We don’t need 30 million bucks or the media or Washington elites.
Throw the bums out! 

7 posted on 9/26/2017, 10:04:33 PM by TigerClaws"

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""Alabama’s Deafening Message–The Movement Is About Trumpism Not Trump."

Exactly. I voted for a series of stated principles last November. My support for those principles will not waver. My support for the man who stated those principles is entirely dependent on whether he sticks by those principles. 

11 posted on 9/26/2017, 10:05:26 PM by AnotherUnixGeek"

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"The ignorant Democrat media painted Trump’s success as Trump using the Deplorables to win. It appears that it was the Deplorables using Trump to win, and he is not essential to their movement.

This should cause consternation in the enemy ranks, since they have falsely thought if they get rid of Trump their problems will be over. However, it appears now that if they get rid of Trump, their troubles will only metastasize. 

20 posted on 9/26/2017, 10:08:15 PM by txrefugee"

  

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Added: From Alabama pollster:

"“What we’ve noticed is that Trump voters aren’t necessarily looking for Trump, they’re looking for candidates who are outsiders like Trump and will lean toward people with that sort of background,” said Robert Cahaly, a Republican pollster whose firm surveyed the Alabama race. “Strange seems establishment, he’s not seen as disruptive at all, so he was at a disadvantage.”"

9/26/17, "After Alabama, GOP anti-establishment wing declares all-out war in 2018," Washington Post, Robert Costa
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