Roy Moore is still running for Senate in Alabama, even after nine women accused him of sexual misconduct, many of whom said they were underage at the time of his actions. One said she was 14 when a 32-year-old Moore lured her to his house and tried to get her to touch his genitals through his tighty-whities. We've also learned Moore was banned from the local mall, and that cops were told to keep him away from cheerleaders at high school football games. Even before that, Moore was a lawless theocrat who proudly said he wanted to deny Muslim and LGBT Americans the full rights of citizenship.

None of that has much slowed his march towards the nation's highest legislative chamber, nor has it stopped his most shameless supporters from publicly backing him. Like, say, the president:

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"We want strong borders," declared the President of the United States, "We want stopping crime."



"We just not want stopping sexual assault," said Stephen Colbert.

We have reached the point where the president can't even put together an English sentence while backing an accused child predator to be a senator. Just another mile marker on the highway to Hell. Yesterday, we took note of Moore defender Jane Porter, who invited us to consider all the women the good Judge hasn't assaulted. Yeah, nine women have accused him, but the Fake News Media keeps ignoring the millions of American women who haven't.

"Everyone was so quick to call Jeffrey Dahmer a serial killer and a cannibal," Colbert said, "but we forget about all the people he didn't eat."

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And then there's Moore's chief strategist, Dean Young, last seen dismissing the allegations against his candidate as "Jerry Springer stuff." He popped up on TV yet again to explain that "if [Moore] dated a teenager, he didn't know about it. I can't tell you how many times I've been on a date and then asked a woman how old she was. Especially after I asked her momma if I could date 'em."

(It's here where we could pause, as Colbert did, to mention that this entire sordid affair is a horrible advertisement for the state of Alabama. Moore's opponent, Doug Jones, has lately been making the point that the disgrace his opponent will bring to the state if elected could very well have an impact on Alabama's economy, as companies simply cross it off their list of potential sites. It doesn't seem like a leap, considering what happened to Mike Pence's Indiana.)

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There are a few things at play in Young's statement. As Colbert put it, if you have to ask her mother's permission, she's probably too young. Even if you are abiding by some kind of perceived Gone With the Wind chivalrous code, maybe find out how old someone is before you try to date them? And then there's the issue that one of Moore's accusers produced a high school yearbook with what she says is a note to her signed by him. It's hard not to know someone's in high school when you're signing their yearbook. Another accuser produced a scrap book—another clue someone may be on the younger side—also featuring a note from Moore. That accuser said she could tell it was from the time she was dating Moore because her "braces were off" in accompanying photos.

Hopefully, assuming we don't go careening straight off the cliff in the near future, we keep comprehensive notes as a society about who is standing up to defend Roy Moore. That word "assuming" is doing a lot of work, in fairness. Moore may have been banned from the Gadsden mall, but it increasingly looks like he's heading for the National one. He won't get there by himself.

Oh, and one more thing. The Washington Examiner dug up divorce records and found Moore started dating his wife, Kayla, before she divorced her previous husband. (He also proudly admits he first spotted her at a teen dance recital "eight years" before they got together when she was 23. That would make her 15. She and the 14-year-old who accused Moore of molesting her were in the same high school class.) As Chris Hayes pointed out on Twitter, that means Moore committed adultery, one of the Ten Commandments of which he had a statue made, placed on the grounds of the Alabama state supreme court, and refused to remove even after a higher court ruled it was in violation of the First Amendment. That got him thrown off the court—all in defense of something he never followed anyway.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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