Fanaticism is marked by persistence in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The very reasonable moderates who issue a pass to Jones for his mysteriously overarticulated attempt at ‘bipartisanship’ have not, it appears, taken in the fact that this strategy has failed over & over, giving the right something like monopoly control of the governmental apparatus from bottom to top.
In this case, Jones won because a well-structured campaign successfully and persistently characterized Moore as the creep he is while coupling that to a major get-out-the-vote effort. It turned Jones’s motto ‘honor & civility’ from the usual pablum into something toxic and effective. The fanatics of moderation, again, cannot take this in.
Jones himself advises us to "not worry about getting at odds with the President any more than we have to.” Because bringing cupcakes to the gunfight has worked so well.