Alabama is Back to Being a Laughingstock in U.S. Politics

People from Alabama have been angry and sore at liberals and “coastal elites” laughing at them for their politically backward tendencies. They routinely send crackpot politicians to the U.S. Congress and then keep them there — politicians that sell out to corporate interests, hurt working Alabamans, appease those same victims by being fervently religious, all while dabbling in white supremacy.

For a brief moment, they conquered that backwardness: Alabama elected prominent civil rights lawyer Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate in 2018.

However, the writing was on the wall that the victory was empty: Jones only beat Roy Moore, the Republican candidate who was twice kicked off the state supreme court for judicial misconduct and who was credibly accused of molesting teenaged girls, by a mere two percentage points.

It came as no surprise, then, that Alabama slid back into its embarrassing ways in 2020 by ousting Doug Jones for… college football coach Tommy Tuberville.

In spite of the fact that he never worked in government, Tuberville nevertheless ran for one of the most important seats in it. However, Alabamans recognized his name. He had coached Auburn University’s football team, to great success. That was more than enough for Alabama voters to put him in the Senate with 60 percent of the vote.

Barely a week after his election, Tuberville opened his mouth and showed everyone how little he knew about non-football subjects. In an interview with Alabama Daily News, he said that World War II was about stopping the spread of socialism (it was about stopping the Nazis), and claimed that the three branches of the U.S. government were the executive branch, the House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate (it’s the executive, legislative, and the judiciary).

Even giving Tuberville the benefit of the doubt and assuming that he knew that the “Nazi” in the Nazi Party was shorthand for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party — an assumption that seems very, very strained, for Tuberville — it doesn’t absolve him: Hitler explicitly stated the “socialism” part of the name was only there to attract the working class and had no part in the Party’s policies.

Everyone, of course, saw this coming. Tuberville was a football coach who moved to Alabama in 2018 solely in order to capitalize on his fame by running for elected office. You didn’t have to be a liberal or a “coastal elite” to see what was happening.

You did, however, have to be an Alabaman to fall for it.

So we’re right back to where we started, with Alabamans getting laughed at for what they did with premeditation. Doug Jones was a blip on the radar, and Alabama is back to what it’s always been, and always will be: A laughingstock.