Tommy Tuberville is not acting: he really is Trump's useful idiot | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : His communications director, Steven Stafford, a longtime Republican operative, sent an email to anti-abortion groups to mobilize them, so "that any Republican who votes for this will be primaried.
41% : The Heritage Foundation - which has produced a blueprint for a Trump second term, the 2025 Transition Project, which includes firing the entire federal civil service and replacing it with Trump loyalists, and invoking the Insurrection Act on day ne of Trump II to deploy the military against political dissidents - has evidently been behind Tuberville's attack on the military.
37% : "Our government wasn't set up for one group to have all three branches of government - wasn't set up that way," Tuberville has said.
35% : Now, Tuberville is performing Trump's early retribution against a military that he believes confounded his coup and preparing the groundwork for his takeover in 2025, which will include replacing the nation's top military command with his lackeys to impose the Insurrection Act against opponents - "my generals", at last.
31% : He falsely claimed that it was Milley who was pushing him to attack Iran.
19% : He has been especially hostile to former chairman of the joint chiefs, Milley, who resisted Trump's idea to bomb Iran after he lost the election to foster a crisis before the electoral college vote on January 6.
13% : Where was his Mike Flynn?When Milley's thwarting of Trump's secret plan to strike Iran was exposed in an article by Susan Glasser in the New Yorker in July 2021, Trump was furious.

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