Senator Thom Tillis criticized Tucker Carlson for footage from a recent trip to Moscow that showed Carlson praising aspects of the Russian grocery shopping experience.
Carlson had applauded features like coin locks on carts and a shopping cart escalator, remarking that similar items in the US would cost much more.
Tillis mocked Carlson’s favorable comparison, noting that the Soviets called people who unwittingly aided their propaganda “useful idiots.”
Dude has never been to an aldis 🤦🏾♂️ https://t.co/rzBJ4a2Bir
— Maxwell Alejandro Frost (@MaxwellFrostFL) February 16, 2024
“Ah yes, Russia is so much better than the U.S. with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations!” Tillis wrote.
“The Soviets had a term for people like Tucker: useful idiots.”
“Coming to a Russian grocery store, the ‘heart of evil,’ and seeing what things cost and how they live, it will radicalize you against our leaders,” Carlson said. “That’s how I feel, anyway — radicalized. We’re not making any of this up, by the way, at all.”
Carlson’s glowing assessment of the Russian grocery store drew further backlash, including from Rep. Maxwell Frost, for seeming to radicalize viewers against American leaders through a favorable portrayal of life in Russia.
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