Opinion by Greg Sargent: Ted Cruz kisses Tucker Carlson’s feet, exposing the far right’s ugly underbelly
This ritual humiliation has gotten Cruz widely mocked for his submissive groveling. But this absurd saga also captures something enduring and essential about the far right’s direction in the post-Donald Trump era, and the hallowed place of Jan. 6 in its evolving ideological schema.. “That’s a lie. You told that lie on purpose. And I’m wondering why you did.”
“You’re playing into the other side’s characterization,” Carlson admonished, which “allows them to define an entire population as foreign combatants.”Herein lies the real crux of the matter. What Carlson really objects to is the depiction of the Jan. 6 rioters, and their supporters, as in some sense waging war on our country, on our political system.First, let’s concede that the debate over the “terrorist” label is complicated.
Cruz’s response to Carlson on that larger accusation really gets to the essence of this. Cruz insisted that he was merely being consistent here: He describes many leftists as “terrorists,” too!“I used that word all in 2020 for the antifa and BLM terrorists that assaulted cops,” Cruz
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