Decades ago, leftists decided that Nazis were so universally reviled that the best way to discredit conservatives was to falsely assert that Nazis were right-wingers simply because the 20th century’s most famous fascists tended to be racist and nationalist. Of course, claiming that the National Socialist German Workers Party was on the Right is a lie big enough to make Joseph Goebbels blush. Unfortunately, thanks to public school indoctrination, it has mostly worked.

Which brings us to Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville and the gross smears he has faced in recent weeks.

As our Thomas Gallatin explained yesterday, “Tuberville has drawn a line in the sand, withholding his vote on all Pentagon appointments, which require a unanimous vote in order to avoid a time-consuming individual vote, until the Biden administration reverses course on its abortion rule” for the VA. The fight is over Joe Biden violating the law with taxpayer-funded abortions, but also what the Left is doing to undermine the U.S. Armed Forces.

Leftists are so rabidly pro-abortion that something had to be done. That something was to paint Tuberville as a racist fan of all those white nationalists supposedly overrunning the military.

In a May interview with NPR’s Alabama affiliate, Tuberville was asked about his blocking of nominations. He responded by criticizing the “woke ideas” infiltrating the military and then brought up the Pentagon’s effort to root out “the white extremists, the white nationalists” from the ranks. (Back in February 2021, the nation’s first black secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, decided that the Left’s bogeyman of white supremacy was the most pressing issue facing the military.)

Tuberville was right to slam the commander-in-chief and the Pentagon for this, but unfortunately the former Auburn University football coach didn’t see the blitz coming and got sacked.

His interviewer, clearly a linebacker for Team Biden, asked, “Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military?”

The appropriate answer would have been to laugh hysterically in the reporter’s face, reiterate that white supremacism/nationalism is a ridiculous leftist smear aimed at anyone to the right of Karl Marx, and move on to reiterate his points about how the Left is ruining the U.S. military.

Unfortunately, that’s not what Tuberville did. “Well, they [Pentagon personnel] call them that,” he began. “I call them Americans.” He proceeded to defend the people at the Capitol on January 6, which wasn’t really relevant, calling them “true Americans that believe in this country.” The interview transcript thus contains a number of the kinds of “fact-checks” Democrats never face.

Speaking of that double standard, why are Democrats never asked to justify or defend the rioters of Black Lives Matter, who by the way today mark 10 years of what the Associated Press chummily calls “activism”? Why are Democrats never asked to explain why thousands of blacks kill thousands of other blacks in Democrat-run cities with Democrat prosecutors who don’t punish criminals? Why has that gotten so much worse since Democrats made a martyr of George Floyd, complete with a melodramatic kneeling ritual while wearing slave-trader garb?

Heck, Democrats aren’t even asked about it when a “white nationalist” mass murderer is actually a leftist ecofascist who wants population control to save the planet from climate change.

Instead, the maddening situation we face is that Joe Biden launched his successful presidential campaign predicated on the Charlottesville lie that Donald Trump called white nationalists “very fine people.” Trump did no such thing. Nevertheless, ever since, President Unity™ has proceeded to divide Americans by race — once in front of a Nazi-like backdrop, no less.

Tuberville found himself in the same boat as Trump — falsely accused based on bumbling words.

Finally on Tuesday, Tuberville managed to say, “White nationalists are racists.”

The headlines gleefully blared that Tuberville “relents” and “begrudgingly admits” that white nationalists are racists. Naturally, appeals to the Southern Poverty Law Center soon followed without so much as a hint that its a far-left race-baiting organization. The SPLC, of course, lumps in parents concerned about school curriculum with a handful of actual white nationalists because the SPLC wouldn’t be able to raise all that money if its sleuths couldn’t keep finding (only white) racists under every rock and branch.

Reporters have incessantly hectored Tuberville and his colleagues over a ginned-up plague, but the real point is that a lot of people are labeled white nationalists when they’re nothing of the sort. That Tuberville fumbled this whole exchange is exactly why Leftmedia reporters will keep attacking every Republican with such stupid questions.

While the Leftmedia brownshirts chase down and harangue every Republican they can find, Democrats get away with slandering half of Americans as “deplorables” and telling blacks “you ain’t black” unless you vote Democrat.

Who are the real racist fascists again?