Everyone keeps saying “this is the first time a Democrat has won a senate race in Alabama since 19–”
And I’m like
No.
No you don’t understand.
The last Democrat to win a Senate race in Alabama was Richard Shelby.
The other current Senator for Alabama.
Who is now a Republican.
Because the Dixiecrats jumped parties from the Democrats to the Republicans.
This is the first time the White Supremacist Southern Establishment Dixiecrat lost in Alabama since fucking Reconstruction.
Doug Jones is not a Conservative Democrat like John Bel Edwards or Joe Manchin.
Doug Jones is a bog-standard mainstream liberal Democrat.
Doug Jones is pro-choice and pro-LGBT rights.
Doug Jones personally destroyed the Alabama KKK.
Doug Jones is the Senator-Elect from the State of Alabama.
I fell like this should be announced to a large crowd while the John Cena theme plays and Doug Jones parachutes onto the stage.
DOUG JONES IS THE SENATOR-ELECT FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA!!
I literally had someone say to my face today “WELL YEAH BUT HE’LL LOSE THE SEAT IN 2 YEARS”
And I swear all I could do was grin, because neocons are so mad, and that grin just made him madder. “Maybe, but that still means that your pedo lost, and that your precious ruby red Alabama elected a Democratic Senator. A pro LGBTQ RIGHTS, PRO CHOICE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR WHO THROWS MURDERING KKK MEMBERS IN JAIL WHERE THEY BELONG. THAT’s who Alabama chose.”