A growing MAGAworld divide between “America First” isolationists and more hawkish Republicans was on center stage in a tense interview between Tucker Carlson and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz released Wednesday.
“It’s like if my own kids are drug addicts, but I’m focused on my neighbor’s kids, it’s like I’m neglecting my own kids. And there’s a sense in which the Congress is neglecting the country that elected them in favor of this relentless focus on other people’s problems. That’s the way it feels as an American,” Carlson told Cruz in the interview, summing up the “America First” point of view.
The interview, which aired on X, highlighted the split in President Donald Trump’s support base on foreign policy and the degree of involvement the U.S. should have in conflicts abroad. While these concerns were already simmering with Russia’s war in Ukraine, Israel’s recent strikes on Iran have thrust the debate to center stage.