Since February, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville effectively prevented the promotion of hundreds of generals and flag officers over Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s commitment to subsidize thousands of abortions for U.S. service members and their families.
Tuberville isn’t the only Republican senator who takes issue with Austin’s advancement of the Biden administration’s radical abortion agenda. But his crusade to keep taxpayer dollars from ending life in the womb, something a majority of Americans oppose, has been riddled with opposition from Democrats, corporate media, and top brass. Now, even senior members of his own party such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are throwing him under the bus.
The most recent wave of attacks on Tuberville’s stonewalling center on a dishonest narrative that the Alabama legislator apparently “refused to denounce” white nationalism in a radio interview in May.
“Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military?” WBHM’s Richard Banks asked.
“Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” Tuberville replied.
Tuberville’s comments are not inaccurate. They are simply predicated on the fact that, under the Biden regime, smears like “white nationalist,” along with “domestic extremist” and others, have been used by Democrats, their activist allies like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti- Defamation League, and bureaucrats to justify targeting dissenters.
“We are losing in the military so fast. Our readiness in terms of recruitment. And why? I’ll tell you why, because the Democrats are attacking our military, saying we need to get out the white extremists, the white nationalists, people that don’t believe in our agenda, as Joe Biden’s agenda. They’re destroying it,” Tuberville said in the initial interview.
The senator also repeated this clarification in an exchange with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in mid-June.
“I’m totally against anything to do with racism. But the thing about being a white nationalist — it’s just a cover word for the Democrats now where they can use it to try to make people mad across the country, identity politics. I’m totally against that,” Tuberville said.
Despite the truthful roots of Tuberville’s quick response, bad-faith attacks from all sides continued. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuberville’s comments were “deeply and terribly disturbing.” Lt. Gen. Andrew Rohling, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Europe- Africa, called Tuberville’s stonewalling tactics “reprehensible, irresponsible and dangerous.”