Three days ago, in response to Ghazala Hashmi being sworn in (on a Quran) as Virginia’s Lt. Governor – the first Muslim woman to be elected statewide in U.S. history – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (DINGBAT-Alabama) posted an unhinged, virulently Islamophobic comment on Twitter in which he complained that, because of Hasmi’s election “The enemy is inside the gates”. So obviously, it should go without saying that this type of blatant anti-Muslim bigotry is disgusting, unacceptable and un-American.
But it’s not.
Sad to say, though, Tuberville knows his voters VERY well – after all, these are the same voters who ousted the superb Doug Jones and replaced him with the mouth-breathing troglodyte Tuberville, with 60% of the vote (overwhelmingly white people, btw) no less.
Alabama voters must like what they see in Tuberville. Same thing with the tens of millions of Americans who voted once, twice, or even three times for Trump. And yes, we can blame the political media because they generally suck, but in the end, if these far-right-extremist bigots, imbeciles, and lunatics had nobody willing to buy what they’re selling, then the likes of Tuberville, Trump, DeSantis would just be some random old man ranting on the street corner, without any power to do anything, as opposed to being a U.S. Senator, President, or Governor with TREMENDOUS power to do harm.
By the way, as of Tuesday morning – three days after Tuberville’s noxious tweet – has a SINGLE Virginia Republican condemned Tuberville’s ugly rhetoric and/or defended Ghazala Hashmi? If not, can we assume that those Virginia Republicans agree with Tuberville’s appalling anti-Muslim bigotry and/or that they’re too afraid of their own voters to speak up? Either way, it’s ugly and it’s bad.