Republicans are weird.
(NYT)The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson stirred up a crowd of Trump supporters on Wednesday night with a bizarre extended metaphor that cast former President Donald J. Trump as an angry father about to come home and give a “vigorous spanking” to his disobedient daughter.
As he warmed up the crowd before Mr. Trump spoke at a rally in Duluth, Ga., Mr. Carlson said that the country under Democratic leadership was like a toddler allowed to “smear the contents of his diapers on the wall of your living room,” or a “hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter” who gives her parents the finger and slams her bedroom door. And he cast Mr. Trump as the strict, disappointed father.
“When Dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl, you’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now,’” Mr. Carlson said. Grinning, he went on: “And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.”
The crowd went wild.
