Ted Cruz has an understandable beef with Tucker Carlson. It is fair to say that they each represent the two clear ideological wings in the Republican Party today that are growing further apart from one another. Ted Cruz represents the classic right-wing pro-American, pro-business, anti-totalitarian view that does not shy away from engaging with the bad actors of the world. Tucker Carlson has largely assumed the mantle of leader of the younger generation of right wingers who are strongly isolationist, view nearly all dictators of the world with admiration, and want to focus first and foremost on fighting progressivism within the United States.
Had the ideas of Tucker Carlson been empty, they would have attracted no followers. But there is much truth in the anti-progressive line that Carlson espouses. The problem is that what used to be a bit of peppering of his isolationism with some anti-Israel rhetoric has become a complete fixation and obsession.
Tucker Carlson has decided to use his powerful microphone and following to seemingly platform every Israel-hater and Jew-hater from every single angle possible. Isolationism in the United States has a long history of having strong anti-Jewish views. Before the State of Israel was established, back in the 1930’s, a massive following listened to the anti-Jewish rhetoric of Father Coughlin on radio. Today, in the age of endless numbers of podcasters able to speak their minds, the number of Jew-haters online abounds.
What is fascinating is how the Jew-haters on the right and the Jew-haters on the left find common ground only on this one issue. The same people who fight progressivism have no problem agreeing with progressives on the Israel vs. Hamas issue. The same people who want to protect America from illegal immigration have no problem agreeing with progressives somehow about the threats that Islamic terrorists pose within the United States.
What they all are missing out on is that there is a real battle alive today between good and evil and both of these Jew-hating groups have chosen to side with the dark side. Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and their supporters have all chosen to support the Hamas terrorists who rape Jewish women, kidnap grandmothers and burn Jewish babies. They can use whatever justification they want to explain it away, but the fact is that they simply think that Israel is always at fault and therefore the cause for Islamic terror in the Middle East.
This kind of specious logic will look away at terrorists within the United States who come and attack innocent Americans inside the United States. In knee-jerk fashion, they will blame the Jewish people for what Arab terrorists do. If people with these kinds of opinions take power in the United States, who would want to live in that kind of a country.
Thank G-d, the United States has rational people at the helm of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches. But it is not hard to imagine a world wherein the Executive and Legislative branches are filled with progressives from the left or Jew-haters from the right. The Judicial branch looks safe for the next few decades as President Trump’s appointees were fantastic and young. But the Judicial branch will not be able to stop an Executive and Legislative branch that both choose to stop supporting Israel and return to Obama-like policies that will be more openly hostile to the Jewish people and embrace the largest growing religion in the United States.