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This is a video of Tucker Carlson articulating that Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump are responsible for genocide. Transcript at bottom if you'd understandably rather not listen to two and a half minutes of an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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80 percent of Democratic party voters have an unfavorable opinion of Israel. Biden and Harris' unyielding support and protection of Israel and Netanyahu as they carried out crimes against humanity helped Harris lose the election, as the suspiciously unreleased 2024 autopsy confirmed.

You cannot paint this as a "fringe loony left" position anymore. Stop being a boomer and blaming it on tiktok (which has now been fixed, thank you Congress and the Ellison family!) Being anti-Israel is the mainstream Democratic party voter position. If you are a democratic politician and you support Israel, you are taking an unpopular position from the jump, and yes, you will be asked about it. It feels like a slam dunk to say the obvious, but it still seems very hard for a lot of Democratic politicians to just tell the unvarnished truth about the US and Israel and what Israel is doing to the region with our full backing. You can see this in real time on how Newsom is "evolving" rapidly on the issue during the early primary season.

So, what happens when you have a political party where the vast majority of its voters feel one way about human rights and international law, and the vast majority of its politicians seem to feel differently? You open a lane for the worst people in the world to seem reasonable.

Unfortunately, 2028 presumptive Republican presidential nominee Tucker Carlson is doing just that. Here he points out that he's more concerned about Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, who have actual real and substantial government power and are using biblical prophecy to justify Greater Israel and the genocide of Palestine, than he is about Nick Fuentes, a far right white supremacist with a podcast. He actually accurately labels it genocide as well, which almost all democratic politicians can't bring themselves to say. Usually, they flounder and blame Netanyahu as some singular figure and say "oh it's horrible sure but I dunno about a genocide I'm not a lawyer", which literally no one likes except for donors and consultants maybe.

This is horrifying for two obvious reasons:

1. It normalizes Nick Fuentes and makes him seem harmless instead of insidious.
2. It makes Tucker Carlson seem like he has empathy whereas democratic politicians have none, inverting what should be the actual dynamic. He is humanizing Palestinians here in a way that most dem politicians are afraid to do and as the dem autopsy pointed out, helped cost them the election.

This just feels like a canary in the coal mine moment. If democrats continue to allow themselves to be outflanked by the far right on basic human rights and decency, I don't feel very good about their prospects when they can't lean on people hating Trump anymore to win.

Former Republicans, newer entrants to the big tent: You're just going to have to get it through your head that most democrats don't like Israel and think we are helping them carry out crimes against humanity/war, and that supporting them is a losing position. Trying to appeal to your electoral pragmatism, here. Democratic voters would love if Democratic politicians also condemned and opposed genocide and apartheid instead of leaving it up to ghouls like Tucker Carlson.

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Transcript for the interview:

>Interviewer [throwing Carlson's question back at him]: Who do you think is more morally repulsive, Nick Fuentes or Ted Cruz?

>Carlson: Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is a sitting US senator who has called for the killing of people who have done nothing wrong, whole populations, who advocated for this war. Nick Fuentes is like a kid. He's like 26 or 27. He has no power except his words. Here you have a public official who we pay, who has actual power, who's voting for things, who's making policy decisions, and those decisions are focused on the murder of people who did nothing wrong. And yet no one thinks it's a big deal. "Well it's just totally fine." I mean if there's tape of Nick Fuentes saying we should kill people because we hate their parents, or it's ok to kill children, I would love to see the tape, because that's disgusting and that's basically what the entire U.S. Senate does every day and no one notices. Nick Fuentes said something naughty that I disagree with, that I wouldn't make fun of things, I'd never make fun of them-

>Interviewer: He's a white nationalist who has denied the Holocaust, and what I would say-

>Carlson: Okay but is that worse than killing kids?

>Interviewer: From my understanding of my own, you know I was just in Germany recently and it was such a good reminder that the Holocaust didn't start with the gassing of Jews, it started with the dehumanization of Jews, it was language that was used, and that is what concerns people-

>Carlson: I couldn't agree more, and that's why when you have a U.S. senator, a member of Congress, a U.S. ambassador waving away civilian deaths as if they don't matter, that's the language of genocide, which results, and this is the lesson of the holocaust, in genocide itself, and it has.

>Interviewer: I can imagine people hearing this and thinking you are soft pedaling Nick Fuentes, you are apologizing for Nick Fuentes-

>Carlson: I'm hardly soft pedaling Nick Fuentes, I'm trying to awaken people to killing of innocents in our midst which we are not only encouraged to ignore but really told to ignore on the pain of being denounced, and I'm just saying "no, I'm not doing that." And Ted Cruz, and Mike Huckabee are two of the main people making this moment possible, and President Trump. But Nick Fuentes is the problem? "Okay." It's not a defense of Nick Fuentes, it's merely a reality check for the rest of us, like what are we doing?"

If a national Democratic party politician said this without the Nick Fuentes glazing, she would win eight hundred billion votes.

You don’t need to lick them up and down, and you don’t need to be overly confrontational. You just investigate their views and actions and statements.