
But the revelations of the last two weeks that Hyde-Smith has endorsed neo-Confederate separatists, made crude jokes about lynching, and talked openly about disenfranchising black voters to ensure Republican dominance, has led some on the right to ask themselves whether the cost of reelecting a casual racist to represent Mississippi might not be worth the reward of controlling a Senate seat that Republicans have long taken for granted. Fortunately for the party, however, these Republican skeptics usually stop asking this somewhere ar…