Republican senator finally ends crusade to defend white nationalists

Tommy Tuberville, pictured here on Wednesday, criticized the government’s efforts to ‘get out the white extremists, the white nationalists’ from the military’. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Politicians typically enter office with a variety of interests, goals and focuses.

A wave of progressive Democrats were elected in 2018 with the stated goal of bringing universal healthcare to the US. Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised to lead the country out of the Great Depression with the New Deal. Donald Trump wanted to build a wall, “drain the swamp”, and force people to say “Merry Christmas”.