Steve Bannon got a scalp in Alabama when Judge Roy Moore defeated incumbent Sen. Luther Strange and all of Washington trembled. They feared the Fox News-watching, Breitbart-reading horde, the uncouth portion of the electorate that actually hates globalism and believes in nationalism.

Those fears might be a bit premature. One primary upset does not an invincible kingmaker make. There’s trouble in the ranks of the populist block that’s eager to remake the world and thereby the U.S. Senate. While Bannon wants to make Moore’s upset victory against Strange a template for insurgents everywhere, that plan could be in tatters because the money isn’t coming through.