
Ted Cruz looked relaxed as he sat down for what he doubtless assumed would be a softball interview with Tucker Carlson. After all, the former Fox News host is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative and, for the most part, is in lock-step with the Republican Party on all its decisions. What do they have to disagree on
But, in an unexpected and refreshing twist, what looked like a comfy leatherback chair was secretly an operating table, and Carlson was the surgeon. Carlson systematically dismantled Cruz with freshly sharpened scalpels, leaving the slime elemental a stammering, sweaty, and thoroughly disgruntled mess.