Mr. Sessions’s predicament says a lot about a Republican Party that Mr. Trump has turned into a vessel for his own political security, held together not by shared beliefs but instead by fealty to him. No one was more of an evangelist for the ideas Mr. Trump ran on than Mr. “I was proud to be from Alabama — for a moment,” added Mr. Castorani, a 27-year-old veteran and former intelligence officer. Sessions became clear in interviews with 20 Alabama voters. Mr. Sessions’s bet is that he can claim something more convincing: He was on board with that agenda first.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2020 09:56 UTC