Clay Travis and Buck Sexton aren't just political hacks...
They're also bad, nasty people
Based on the direction of today’s Republican party, nothing should surprise us. This is the party of lawmakers who depict the murder of their political adversaries, misidentify branches of their own government, and hold the belief that “our bad air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move”.
After all, two of the above three examples are authored by current members of Congress. A third might soon join them.
With all of this in mind, we probably shouldn’t be put off when mouthpieces of the right-wing movement in this country say or do something appalling. Just when you think the bar has been set to a new low, however, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton seem to clear it yet again.
On Tuesday night, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov John Fetterman and celebrity television doctor Mehmet Oz met for the one and only scheduled debate of their neck-and-neck U.S. Senate campaign. Fetterman is currently on the mend from a stroke, of which his doctor’s have predicted a full recovery. As his campaign stops have illustrated, the Reading, PA native sometimes struggles with his speech, common with those who have suffered a stroke. Nonetheless, he has been declared fit for office by a medical doctor.
That last bit doesn’t matter to right-wing zealots Clay and Buck, who have reached the point of railing against those in authority just to say they do (well, some people in authority) — doctors, economists, policy experts, scholars, professors, and teachers to name a few.
During Tuesday night’s debate, Fetterman ran into some issues with his speech, and the hate-filled duo, predictably, pounced.
Travis, who really leaned into his post-debate tirade, went on in subsequent tweets to label Fetterman’s wife a “disgrace”, calling on her to apologize for allowing her husband to remain in the race. In what world does anyone, much less the spouse of an elected official, owe someone like Clay Travis an apology?
Sexton and Travis covered the debate on their Wednesday program, cackling over clips of Fetterman’s missteps, comparing him to a “runner competing in a marathon with a broken leg”, and Travis even going so far as to saying he is a “threat to democracy”, which is an interesting take coming from the same person who tries to take down Democrats for giving the GOP the same label. To no one’s surprise, the hosts didn’t include the now-viral clip of Oz noting that woman’s right to choose should be made between her, her doctor, and “local elected officials”.
Any reader of ours has the right to decide for themselves if John Fetterman is up to being a United States senator, but the reality is that Clay and Buck are taking advantage of a candidate fighting through non-disqualifying health issues to push towards their final goal — power. It is, after all, the only thing that matters to them and their party.
This has become the norm for the Trump-endorsing wing of the Republican party, and you can surely expect more of it if a majority of them are elected next month. There are no policy arguments to be found, just 280-character snippets of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance thrown to their base for retweets and likes. Clay Travis and his ilk continue to show the country exactly what they are; it’s time us to step up and denounce them.