Tucker Carlson

What’s up with Utah?

Across the country, some of the most liberal republicans represent some of the reddest states — why? Maybe it’s the result of corrupt party leadership.

Published

1 year ago

April 6, 2022

Alan Rugger

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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“I’m only suggesting that one factor that Christians use to assess the behavior of their government and other governments ought to be the treatment of Christians. It ought to be, why is it not?”

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“The conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Super complicated. I don’t think there’s an easy answer, I don’t think there’s a ‘good guy’ and a ‘bad guy’… and the more I learn about it, the more I’m confused. I’m certainly not endorsing Russia… But, one of the guides that we as Christians should use to assess that situation is, how do Christians fare in those countries? It’s totally legitimate to ask that question. Is it easier to be a Christian in Russia or Ukraine?”

“One of those countries just arrested a bunch of priests and shut down churches with political police and the army. It wasn’t Russia. I raised that question at a Christian gathering, people scowled at me. Really? They’re arresting priests? I don’t need to know more.”

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Which county is more welcoming to Christians, Ukraine or Russia? That’s a fair question. Why is no one allowed to ask it? pic.twitter.com/3yhFsuzvBT

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) September 26, 2023

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Tucker: Viktor Orbán on Ukraine, Russia and Hungary

If any western country would send any boots on the ground, that would mean a direct war between the west and Russia.

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“As the war in Ukraine completely reshuffles the world order and threatens to destroy human civilization, it’s striking just how little information Americans are receiving about what happens there. The nation of Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, the nation’s longest serving Prime Minister, has been dealing with the Russians all of his life. He grew up under Russian occupation. As a young man, he was arrested and thrown in to jail by Russian-backed police for his efforts to liberate the country. In his Prime Ministry, he’s dealt regularly with Vladimir Putin, whose nation supplies Hungary with most of its energy. Viktor Orbán understands Russian and Ukraine. So, two years after we last spoke to him, we returned to Hungry to sit down with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and ask him, what exactly is happening in Ukraine right now?

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“They will not kill their leader, they will never give it up, they will keep together the country [sic] and they will defend it. We finance more, they will invest more. If we send more technical equipment, they will produce more. So, don’t misunderstand the Russians.

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“Ideology is a very difficult thing, because it has an exclusivity. So, when the liberal says that this is the interpretation of society, it means that this is the only way to interpret a society. If you do differently, you cannot be a good man. So, we have another interpretation, we have a Christian and national, more traditional interpretation of human being and society, but they can’t accept it because it’s different.

“If you ask anybody on the street that any Hungarian leader who is elected freely can be a puppet of Putin or the Russians, they say it’s a joke, it’s impossible, because we are a sovereign country, and even to the Russians we deliver many times that we are sovereign.”

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Ep. 20 Hungary shares a border with Ukraine. We traveled to Budapest to speak with the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán. pic.twitter.com/LOzpMrQNIz

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 29, 2023