The reasons Jeff Sessions faced such a brutal path to confirmation as the 84th attorney general of the United States despite being well liked by his Senate colleagues are not all traceable to controversies from 30-plus years ago.

Before President Trump, Sessions was the Republican politician most responsible for trying to move American conservatism in a more nationalist and populist direction.

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