The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 14th, 2017, The Devil and Mr. Jones edition.

I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura.

I am in Washington, D.C., this late studio therein.

I'm alone. We were together last week, which means we must be flung apart this week.

Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, hello. Where are you?

I'm in New Haven, Connecticut. Hello, hello.

John Dickerson of CVS's Face the Nation. Where are you?

I'm far flung. I'm in New York City. Hello. Flung and flung. Flang and flung. On this week's Gab Fest, the extraordinary defeat of cartoon villain Roy Moore in the special Senate election in Alabama

and what that means for the 2018 election and for President Trump.

Then the absurd Republican tax bill is sprinting toward passage.

Is there any chance a handful of senators will waver and quaver and decide to

kibosh it? Then another week, another round of awful harassing men, sexually misconducting

themselves, men have been exposed. And this was also the week when the accusations, the many, many accusations against President

Trump for his sexual misconduct reemerged and were discussed.

We will discuss that and where the Me Too movement is going.

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter.

Doug Jones, prosecutor of the Ku Klux Klan,

upstanding citizen, defeated a pedophile creep who believes Muslims shouldn't be allowed to serve

in Congress, averred that homosexuality should be a crime, was twice removed from judicial

office for violating federal orders.

This kind of result should not be a surprise, but of course it was a monumental surprise.

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