Hypocrisy is to politics what static is to a radio: a constant background noise that distorts the message but somehow never goes away. Yet, it also exposes what people truly believe.
Such is the case with the brouhaha over comments former President Donald Trump made about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who appears to have made it her ultimate mission to oppose him.
The controversy began when video footage of a discussion between Trump and Tucker Carlson at an event in Arizona circulated on social media. During the conversation, Carlson asked the former president about Cheney joining his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, on the campaign trail. “The reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war,” he said.
The former president then called Cheney “a radical warhawk” and questioned how…