Tucker asks how some of the most conservative states end up being led by some of the most liberal politicians, who represent neither their state, nor the democracy they claim to uphold.
Highlights include:
“A highly conservative state with extremely liberal leaders, how did that happen? Actually, it’s not as unusual as you’d hope it would be. Across the country, some of the most liberal republicans represent some of the reddest states — why? Well, maybe it’s the result of corporate influence and corrupt party leadership, that’s true. Maybe voters in those states don’t feel threatened so they’re not paying close attention to who they vote for. Whatever it is, it’s very obvious. By contrast, the most energetically conservative governor in the country is not from Alabama, he’s from Florida, which to this day is split almost evenly along party lines, so Ron DeSantis has to earn every vote.”
“Meanwhile, bright red Utah is now led by a cut-rate Gavin Newsom imitator called Spencer Cox. Spencer Cox is a former telecom executive who always seems like he’s auditioning for the title of America’s guiltiest white guy.”
“It’s never about gender, it’s always about obedience. Spencer Cox is obedient, if nothing else, but not obedient to his voters, that’s the weird thing. What exactly is the market for superfluous pronouns in Utah? Pretty limited, you would think. Most people in Utah don’t need to be told. Yet, somehow Spencer Cox is their governor. “
“So, here’s this moist little guy sitting alone in his gilded room with a mask on, telling us it’s not racist to exclude people from a scholarship based on their race. Does anyone else in Utah believe this? We’d like to meet them. There can’t be many of them. Most people in Utah have more sense than that, racism is when you hurt people based on their skin color, right? Right. And most people in Utah, by the way, still believe in biology, also gravity and photosynthesis, the state of Utah is pro-science. And we know this because Utah state legislature just passed a bill banning men from competing in women’s sports because men, it turns out, are not women. But Spencer Cox disagrees, he vetoed that bill.”
“That doesn’t seem fair to the state of Utah, but it’s not just Spencer Cox. Utah’s junior senator Mitt Romney has also decided he’s tired of representing the people of Utah, so instead he’s speaking for his neighbors in the state of California where he lives a lot of the time. Less than a year ago…Mitt Romney voted against the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the DC circuit court of appeals. Okay, he thought she wasn’t qualified. Now, this week, Mitt Romney announced that he is supporting the same person’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Huh? She was unqualified for a lower court but a perfect choice for the Supreme Court, how does that work?”
“Mitt Romney is not alone, of course, neither is Spencer Cox. It turns out a lot of republicans in red states serially betray their voters, give them the finger day after day after day. The question is, how long will republican voters put up with this?”
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