This week, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama compared Zohran Mamdani’s mayorship of New York City to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
“The enemy is inside the gates,” he posted. Later, Tuberville, a former head football coach at Auburn University, felt compelled to clarify his statement. “To be clear, I didn’t ‘suggest’ Islamists are the enemy,” he posted. “I said it plainly.”