The best thing that could be said about Tucker Carlson’s love letter to Vladimir Putin on his show Tuesday is that it didn’t sound any better in the original Russian. He indulged in pathetic worship of Putin’s manufactured machismo at the same time he presented Biden as weak and not in charge. Contrary to Tucker Carlson’s pleas, Putin’s assault on Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO or any threats real or imagined against Russian borders or national security, about which Putin cares nothing anyway. Why would a flag-wrapped nationalist like Tucker Carlson take Putin’s side? Or perhaps it’s that Trumpists, much like Putin, don’t see democracy as anything but trouble despite their claims of being freedom-loving patriots.

Source: Fox News December 11, 2021 01:22 UTC