Ted Cruz grovels to Tucker Carlson over Jan. 6 'terrorist attack' remark

[Zorro]

If you tried to script an interview that epitomized the GOP’s post-Jan. 6 evolution, its subjugation to its more extreme elements and its rewriting of its own narrative of the Capitol riot, you’d struggle to do better than Sen. Ted Cruz’s interview with Tucker Carlson on Thursday night.

To recap, Cruz (R-Tex.) set off a bit of a MAGA backlash on Wednesday by calling the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol a “violent terrorist attack.” Among those criticizing Cruz was Carlson, who laid into the senator on Wednesday night.

So Cruz appeared on Carlson’s show Thursday night to back down, take his medicine and hopefully move on.

It did not go quite so well. But it did at least provide an extremely apt picture of the current state of the post-Jan. 6 GOP — on the evening of the anniversary of Jan. 6, no less.

https://wapo.st/3n4Alb0

[JHB]

1. Limbaugh did the same thing for 30 years

Republicans who strayed from the party line, or who had been caught on mike speaking about Limbaugh in any terms less than glowing praise, was on his show within 48 hours -- usually 24 -- trying out for the Olympic backpedaling team.

[czarjak]

2. From "solemn" to not in record time, huh?