The Face of the Republican Party: Because of the Pentagon’s Abortion Policy, Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville Blocked Promotions for over 400 Senior Military Officers, Endangering Our National Security

Former Auburn University head football coach and now Republican Senator from Alabama, Tommy Tuberville, has often shown his lack of knowledge about how our federal government works. For example, when asked, he couldn’t correctly name the three branches of the United States government. In addition, he has erroneously stated many times that Americans fought to end socialism in Europe during World War II. Americans fought to end Nazi fascism. When interviewed on CNN in July 2023, he also didn’t seem to understand that “White Nationalists” were racists.

Tuberville, whose beliefs are closely aligned with Donald Trump’s, has been holding up high-level military promotions until the Democrats change their stance on reproductive rights in the military. Single-handedly, he is preventing the confirmation of generals, admirals, and members of our Joint Chiefs of Staff. Leaders of both parties are concerned this will affect our military readiness.

We need knowledgeable people in Congress. Our lives depend on it. But those who should run refuse to do so. Why should they when they will be held hostage by people like Tuberville? To quote former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, “What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.” And there’s nothing more dangerous than a powerful idiot.

Americans have lost confidence in their government. We no longer trust our legislators and the Supreme Court to solve our country’s problems: income inequality, affordable health care, a woman’s right to decide what’s best for her health, the economy, and climate change. Governance has become a series of battles. It’s no longer just political ideology. We are at war over cultural issues while our politicians ignore our basic needs. And we’ve lost faith in our country’s institutions when ersatz news organizations like Fox knew Donald Trump lost the election but promoted voter fraud to get ratings.

The morals of our GOP legislators and their sycophants are just as important as their economic policy. How can we trust a party that Alex Patton, a Florida-based Republican consultant and pollster, has characterized as a party that “has become mean and driven by emotion on whom we dislike.”? “But,” he says, “that is the driving force in American politics right now.” That is the driving force of the GOP, not the Democrats. This is not an example of the equality of “bothsidesism.”

In my essay, “ It’s Time to Release Our Own Kraken!” I outlined the history of the Republican Party’s “below the belt” tactics. They continue to be underhanded to this day. But with the low level of civility in our present polarized country, many Republican legislators now in office have hit new ethical lows.

As a visual artist who has spent over a decade creating posters about the sorry state of American political discourse, this year I began a new series of portraits, “Faces of the Republican Party.” The men and women in this series deserve to be taken to task for their unwillingness to compromise, belief in conspiracy theories, and disdain for the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, and our children’s education. The purpose of our government is to solve our nation’s problems. It’s not a place for personal vendettas or manufactured cultural issues.

“Faces of the Republican Party” is not a partisan series of portraits. Merriam-Webster defines the word as “a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person, especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.” The people depicted in these images are the partisans. Instead, my series is a documentary and op-ed showcasing the facts in 2022. All of them had a hand in trying to overthrow the government. These images are MAGA Republicans who put their blind allegiance to Donald Trump and their careers ahead of the needs of the American people.

The results of the 2022 midterm elections showed we are tired of autocratic and self-absorbed politicians. We would simply like our officials to do the jobs we elected them to do. Everyone deserves a piece of American Exceptionalism. As it stands, there is nothing exceptional about the tribalism these people promote.

Republicans are perfect examples of Patton’s “driving force.” This force is dirty, mean, misogynistic, selfish, and wastes our tax dollars. These people are just a small sampling of individuals responsible for the loss of credibility and faith in America’s institutions. And worse, they couldn’t care less.

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