Tucker Carlson

with people who are committed to saying whatever it takes to get their goal achieved without explaining what the goal is.

So that mode of communication, of operation, that whole worldview is totally corrosive to our country.

It is totally immoral.

Lying is bad.

And

Because lying is now the currency of government, thanks to people like the people you just saw on the screen, some of us have lost track of this.

So you can't accept anything the government says at face value to parse every statement.

Well, maybe this means that or it's a bank shot intended to achieve this.

You have no clue.

That is so bad for your society.

Living in a hall of mirrors gives you vertigo after a while.

Those kind of people should have no role in any decision the U.S.

government makes going forward, period.

And if they support arming the freedom fighters of Iran, let them do it themselves.

If they support overthrowing the regime, let them fly there themselves and attempt to do that, if it's that important.

But for not one more day should people like that have access to the levers of power in this country, and they should absolutely not be allowed to write our legislation.

This country needs to free itself from the influence of a foreign power and restore freedom to its own citizens.

The freedom to criticize a foreign country, to boycott it if they so choose, to speak their conscience without the fear of being arrested or accused of a thought crime.

People like that have made this country increasingly authoritarian where people who are born here no longer feel free to say what they really think.

The last election was supposed to end that.