2. “Every Republican senator had better get prepared for a challenge from the far right.”

That was Trent Lott, a former Senate Republican leader, after the defeat of Luther Strange in an Alabama primary last night.

Mr. Strange’s disappointed backers included President Trump (who deleted his supportive tweets when the results came in) and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.

The winner, Roy Moore, above, is an ultraconservative judge who once defied a federal court order to remove a 2.6-ton Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Supreme Court building. He was backed by Stephen Bannon.

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