Alabama voters chose political novice, failed hedge fund manager, and retired football coach Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to replace incumbent Doug Jones (D-AL), and they did so by twenty points. Alabama Daily News sat down with him for an interview, and he had a couple of gems for the reader:
Question: You mentioned the majorities and they are going to be razor thin. I mean, right now it looks like one or two seats in the Senate for Republicans, maybe 14 or 15 seats for Democrats in the House. And that’s as close as it’s been in a long, long time. Do you think the Democrats are going to have to work with Republicans and Republicans are going to have to work with Democrats? You see that being possibly a more productive situation?
Tuberville: Yeah and that’s how our government was set up. You know, our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three of branches of government. It wasn’t set up that way, our three branches, the House, the Senate and executive.
Urp #1. The Founding Fathers worried about entrenched interests and accumulation of power. This guy doesn’t understand that the Judiciary is the third branch. What are we to make of this? Well, that he’s just another Republican amateur. What are the Alabama voters thinking? The Republican Party could have at least picked First Lickspittle Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, an experienced, if radical nutcase, former Senator to resume his position.
Question: Other than the obvious, I mean you won your race, and so that’s obviously a big takeaway. Other than that obvious point, what kind of takeaways did you take from the election, both state and nationally? What do you think voters said?
Tuberville: Well, it’s a little concerning to me that, just as a citizen this time last week, I look at it and I see what country I grew up in and what it’s meant and the direction that we were going, and it’s concerning to me that a guy can run for president of the United States and have an opportunity to win when he leans more to a Socialist type of government, you know, one-payer system in health care, raise taxes 20%, when the other half the country is basically voting for freedom, let us control our own lives, stay out of our life. And that’s concerning to me that we’re to the point now where we’ve got almost half the country voting for something that this country wasn’t built on. Very concerning and, you know, as I tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of Socialism. Today, you look at this election, we have half this country that made some kind of movement, now they might not believe in it 100 percent, but they made some kind of movement toward socialism. So we’re fighting it right here on our own soil. We’ve got to decide, you know, over the years which direction we’re going, and that part’s concerning to me.
Urp #2. World War II was about fascism, not socialism. Now, I know the fascist party in Germany used to be called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, so it can be confusing – but as he incorporates this fallacious point as the center of his argument against socialism in general, this intellectual mistake cannot be excused. Inserting the proper name and definition destroys his assertions.
But even worse is this: Fascism is a creature of the right, not the left, where socialism generally originates. Now, I know that I find little difference between communism and fascism, but for the politically aware, Tuberville’s far-right ideology is housed in an apartment right next to that holding the smoking remains of fascism.
I suspect this is a strong contender for the Clown of the Senate.
