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Oh for fucks sake, not everything is a distraction!
It's quite possible for someone to just be an asshole in multiple ways.
Correct that not everything is a distraction, but this situation very much is - and you’d have to be naive to believe otherwise.
Senators have a team of staffers to co-ordinate and manage their public relations; it’s not a coincidence that within a day of the NYT publishing an article exposing his holding up military appointments and promotions - that he’s taking every interview opportunity to throw out stupid sound-bites to change the media coverage.
He doesn’t care if his detractors call him racist, if anything that actually boosts support amongst his constituency. He however very much does care if they get word of him fucking with the military, even if it’s due to their abortion policy.
This is very much a reverse Hanlon’s Razor situation, and with a complicit media the public is falling for it.
So do we give him the Brock Turner treatment? Only refer to him as Proven Military Hater Tommy Tuberville to counter this?
ETA: How do we change the narrative back to something his supporters would be against?
As immature as it may come across, the Brock Turner treatment has largely caught on with the collective internet consciousness.
Trump voters seem to love nicknames too, think Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe.. just need to find a suitable term with the same panache.