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Ted Cruz: “We went much further down the road of liberalism. You look…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz Discuss US Foreign Policy, Iran, and Israel

Published | Video Starts at 21:16

Some of it is politics and some of it is culture. And one of the mistakes people make in politics is thinking everything is politics. So the political answer, which I happen to believe is We went much further down the road of liberalism. You look at Bill Clinton, who inherited the peace dividend of the Cold War being over and moved us more to the left. And then Obama accelerated it a lot. So there are lots of bad economic policies. But I also think they're cultural things. You know, the. I agree with all of that. I know what you're gonna say, and I agree 100%. (21:16–21:28)

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Asserts that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama moved the U.S. further left politically.

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