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DES MOINES, Iowa (LifeSiteNews) – Tucker Carlson doesn’t think much of deadbeat dads – biological or political.
During a Q&A session on July 15 at the Family Leader Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, Fox News host Carlson excoriated fathers who leave their children before using them as a metaphor for establishment Republicans in Washington, D.C.
“The people I’m maddest at in the world are the people who don’t do their duty and leave the vulnerable exposed. It’s the dad who leaves his kids.”
He added, “I’d just like to punch him in the face.”
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He made the remarks after being asked if he would run for president, a question to which he howled with laughter and jokingly responded, “You called me a politician, pal!”
Instead of answering at once, Carlson took the opportunity to talk about fathers who are derelict in their responsibilities.
“That’s your duty, those are your children, and you left. You don’t care about them,” he said.
He called such behaviour “the most basic violation there is.”
The Fox host then said he thought “a lot of leaders in the Republican Party” are like absentee fathers.
“I’m sorry to say that, I do,” he said.
Carlson cited his decades of experience in political journalism and having grown up around Republican lawmakers thanks to his father’s line of work. He suggested that the way Republicans has treated their base was why Donald Trump was elected.
“There’s a reason that Republican voters chose Trump despite all of his [flaws],” he said.
“Republican voters understood on a gut level that they were not always able to articulate, that whatever Trump’s problems, he kind of liked them.”
Establishment Republicans dislike the “Evangelical” base of the party, Carlson revealed.
“These Evangelicals, the snake handlers,” he said, giving an example of what establishment conservatives would say “when no one was watching.”
See also Carlson’s full speech to the conference assembly:
Carlson said that, although he did not grow up in an Evangelical Christian culture, “over the years of living in Washington [he] became so defensive about Evangelicals.”
He called the criticism of Republican Evangelicals “unfair” given their efforts for family and faith-friendly politics in America.
Sadly, “Republican leaders” would call them “freaks,” he said.
‘The average Republican voter is not represented in a meaningful way by his or her leaders in Washington. I cannot stress that enough.”
Carlson ended his statements by saying he has “every intention” of remaining a television host rather than politician but said that he would keep “hammering” for Christian Republican voters and hold RINOS to account.
“Anyone who won’t help or who is secretly working for the other side at a moment of crisis like this, when they’re throwing people in jail for having the wrong opinions, that person is beneath contempt.”