Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C) labeled former Fox News host Tucker Carlson a “useful idiot” after he posted a video to social media gushing over a Russian grocery store.
“Ah yes, Russia is so much better than the U.S. with all those cheap groceries and lavish subway stations. The Soviets had a term for people like Tucker: useful idiots,” Tillis wrote in a post on X/Twitter.
Tillis was responding to a video Carlson posted of a trip he took to a grocery store in Moscow, Russia while visiting the country to interview President Vladimir Putin.
In the video, Carlson praised the country for the price of its groceries and the quality of produce.
“If you take people’s standard of living and you tank it through filth and crime and inflation, and they literally can’t buy the groceries they want, at that point maybe it matters less what you say or whether you’re a “good person” or a “bad person,” Carlson said in the video. “You’re wrecking people’s lives in their country and that’s what our leaders have done to us, and coming to a Russian grocery store, the “heart of evil,” and seeing what things cost and how people live, it will radicalize you against our leaders. That’s how I feel, anyway. Radicalized.”
