Tucker Carlson

That's like an academic exercise.

It doesn't really have much to do with life here in the United States.

And in any case, the people advocating for it are doing so, and they tell us this all the time because they think it's good for the United States.

This is in our interest.

This is for our safety.

We need to spend a trillion dollars or now a trillion and a half dollars a year on the Pentagon so we will thrive at home.

So the homeland will be safe and prosperous.

That's what we call the Department of Homeland Security because the first concern is the homeland, the country where we live, the country our ancestors built, the United States.

That's the goal is to protect the United States and its people because what is the United States but its people?

That's all it is.

It's American citizens and we need to help them.

And admittedly, it's kind of complicated, our plan.

We're going to bring democracy to flower in the Middle East, but that will make it a lot better here.

That's what they were telling us.

And some of us who weren't paying enough attention or weren't wise enough to understand the difference between a truth and a lie kind of ignored it.

Okay, now, Syria, Iraq, go crazy.

But with the rise of Donald Trump in 2015, it became a lot clearer what was actually going on.

Donald Trump, whatever his demonstrated faults, is brilliant at one thing.

He is a genius, and this may be unintentional, at bringing into stark relief the differences in worldviews between people and groups.

Donald Trump is a living Rorschach blot.