Analysis: One of the best things that could have happened to waning U.S. support for Ukraine was Tucker Carlson being pulled off Fox News’s airwaves. But up there with that development might be what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) just said.
.” But he also layered his comments with the GOP’s talking point about how the support shouldn’t be a “blank check.”
That’s where McCarthy’s new comments are particularly notable. He thoroughly rebuked Russia’s invasion in new terms, but it’s also worth emphasizing the question to which he was responding. The question didn’t posit that he opposed Ukraine aid, full stop; it was that he opposed “unlimited and uncontrolled supplies of weaponry and aid.” That’s a reasonable approximation of a “blank check,” and McCarthy could easily have reiterated the “blank check” talking point, but he didn’t.
McCarthy also said that “we will continue to support” Ukraine, which would seem to send a message to members like Rep. Matt Gaetz and McCarthy’s newfound ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , who have joined with Carlson to try to push the party in an isolationist direction.McCarthy’s comments actually sound a lot like they come from the person who may be the GOP’s most high-profile supporter of continued aid to Ukraine,.
What we now seem to have is the top Republicans in both the House and the Senate singing from more or less the same hymnal. And McCarthy’s move is significant given that he’s arguably the most important figure on this, as the man who leads the Republican-controlled House, where further aid faces its biggest hurdle.. Say what you will about his debt-ceiling strategy; it suggests that he’s at least able to wrangle his party and that there is some goodwill built up with the House Freedom Caucus.
to stick up for Ukraine. “I’ve been amazed and horrified by how many people are frightened of a guy called Tucker Carlson,” Johnson said.As the GOP base has shifted on Ukraine, we’ve noted the lack of pushback from the party’s more hawkish wing and those who view the conflict as involving vital U.S. foreign policy issues. That relatively muted response is undoubtedly due, at least in part, to fear of alienating the likes of Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and the more Ukraine-skeptical GOP voters.
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