The senator from Alabama deserves support from the Republican grassroots for taking the constitutionally correct stand against the Pentagon. We could use a few more like him.

We’ve turned the republic upside-down. The signs of health are taken as signs of illness, and the signs of illness are taken as signs of health. Consider Senator Tommy Tuberville’s refusal to allow approval of military appointments by unanimous consent.

But let’s start with a comparison before we get there.

In January, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) needed 15 rounds of voting to be chosen as speaker of the House, negotiating with members of his caucus over the conditions he would need to establish in order to obtain their support. The process was blasted as an “attack on democracy” and “good government.”

To take a single representative example of allegedly mainstream rhetoric, the geniuses at Time magazine assured readers that, as their headline put it, “The McCarthy Holdouts Are Trolling Democracy.”

read more at https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/tommy-tuberville-is-the-american-statesman-we-need

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