On Sunday, USA Today ran an editorial arguing that “Both Steve Bannon and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi share similar world views. Both harbor apocalyptic visions of a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West.” It took Tucker Carlson a couple days, but on Wednesday evening he came up with the definitive response:
That’s real, by the way. That actually ran on Fox News. And it may have worked for that audience. For Fox News viewers, “didn’t behead any journalists or employ child soldiers” may be the bar a Republican White House adviser needs to clear.
Here’s a crazy thought, though: Maybe one can have neither used chemical weapons on Kurds nor carried out mass executions of a specific religious group and yet still not be who we want pulling the strings in the White House and, say, doing what he can to ban members of a different religious group from entering the United States. Or generally bringing white supremacist ideology to presidential decision-making.
But! But! But … he didn’t behead any journalists! Surely he is above criticism for all time.