The leaders of three branches of the U.S. military slammed Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) over his monthslong blockade of senior military promotions Tuesday, with one accusing the Republican senator of “aiding and abetting communists.”
“For someone who was born in a communist country, I would have never imagined that actually one of our own senators would actually be aiding and abetting communists and other autocratic regimes around the world,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro — a Cuban-born Navy veteran — said Tuesday during an interview on CNN alongside Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Army Secretary Christine Wormuth.
“This is having a real negative impact and will continue to have a real negative impact on our combat readiness,” Del Toro added.
Primaries are how you win these fights, and they’re trying to paint Tuberville as bad for the military (because he is) to his own constitutents, who dislike killing babies and also dislike “communists” and the military being hurt.
More to the point, the hope is clearly that the threat of this primary challenge will make him drop his blockade.
The alternative is to do nothing and let one person’s personal vendetta fuck up our military.
I don’t think it’ll work, and if it does he’ll probably get replaced by someone worse, but I wish them luck.