This Is Your Brain On Talk Radio

     The Right has become prone to taking the opposite position from Democrats--even in those unusual situations where they are right.   Nowhere on the Right is this more true than with that favorite of the alt-right,  Tucker Carlson.   It's hard to believe that conservatives once anticipated Carlson becoming a thoughtful commentator,  now that he carries water for Communist strongman Vladimir Putin.   Now that Democrats have evolved away from their ridiculous position that considering Russia a strategic threat,  Carlson has taken the position that former KGB officer Putin should be a hero to the American Right. 

     Attitudes like that of Tucker Carlson explain why Republicans saw the ambivalence about aiding Ukraine that occasioned Trump's first Impeachment as a non-issue.   (Many Republicans also seemed uncertain whether the POTUS had a legal responsibility to execute laws he wasn't crazy about. )

     Estase is afraid that Trump's "America First " ideology will endanger both Taiwan and Ukraine if invaded.   Republican foreign policy has become short-sighted and opportunistic.   The ridiculous Kevin McCarthy never fails to blame Orange Blatherskite's decision to leave Afghanistan (which,  according to John Bolton's book,  was primarily a financial decision) on Joe Biden.   Looking at monetary cost instead of human rights or freedom is what passes for Republican foreign policy now.   As long as Donald Trump's nonsensical ideologies animate the Republican party,  GOP leaders will now ask "What's in it for me?" in reference to stopping Chinese or Russian aggression.   Also,  any such aggression will be blamed on Joe Biden's "weakness," and not on the kind of totalitarian leadership that Republicans admire in Putin,  but simultaneously hate in Xi.

     This kind of mental confusion can be laid at the feet of all the AM radio sages and Tucker Carlsons who have made the average Republican a muddle-headed sap.