Later, when asked to elaborate, Tuberville only made matter worse, saying: “I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican. That’s what we’re called all the time, a MAGA person.”
“Is he defending Trump Republicans by proudly labeling them all racists?” Williams asks.
“Tuberville’s race-baiting is part of a larger political strategy for getting attention in a disproportionately white party as America becomes increasingly racially diverse.”
The senator is also blocking military promotions to protest reimbursement of military personnel who travel to procure abortions.
Williams writes: “The combination of Tuberville’s attacks on racial diversity and abortion are evidence of his incredible sense of white male privilege being larger than his concern for the unity and readiness of the U.S. military.”
Republicans have at times been willing to take on and shun their most extreme members. Williams’s question is: “Where is the Republican willing to take on Tuberville?”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
