Tucker Carlson: “With all this drug cartel money in your state, it's not…”

“And that the Republicans that do that have traded getting good policy done, getting property tax on school choice, protecting the border, not doing impeachments of guys that just got elected. They traded that to have power. That's all it is. With all this drug cartel money in your state, it's not going to get better because you could just buy a member of the Texas legislature. What would that cost? Not too much. I mean, these guys, I mean, they only make $600 a month. So, you know, anything is good after that. We're pretty vulnerable that way.” (21:59–22:05)

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