Within just a few weeks of the United States launching strikes on Iran, asking questions about the war became practically verboten.
As I wrote in my first newsletter on this topic, we at the Daily Caller have all kinds of questions. Pretty much all of them can be condensed into the following bucket: What does this mean for the average American?
Yet I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among the online commentariat and how they treat those who don’t reflexively cheerlead the war. We’re panicans. Not plan trusters. Trump haters. At worst, traitors.
Over the weekend, our co-founder, Tucker Carlson, reported that he was told the CIA was preparing a referral to the DOJ about his communications with Iranian officials. His “crime,” as he put it, was “talking to people in Iran before the war.”
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