A surefire way to know you’re over the target is to watch your enemies panic and scramble to discredit you with no shortage of claims on your character, overt narrative reinforcement, and every entity that it can muster coming out of the woodwork to make comments that generate discrediting headlines.

Tucker Carlson’s airing of the January 6 footage that was hitherto hidden from the public view by Democrats has thrown more than a few wrenches into the gears, and the resulting cacophony of backlash has only made the case against the Democrat’s narrative all the stronger.

Even worse, however, is that the Republicans who joined the Democrats are now coated with the same stink.

As reported by Politico, the latest entity to join the anti-Tucker dogpile is none other than the White House:

In comments shared first with POLITICO, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed Carlson’s broadcasts of selected assault footage as being “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions.”

“We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law — which cost police officers their lives,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said.

“We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible,” Bates added.

Firstly, they use the term “offensive” but I’m struggling to understand to whom is this is offensive. The Democrats who repeatedly pushed false narratives and are now watching as their lies fall to pieces? If so…good. The offense they’re feeling should sting, but it’s guaranteed that it doesn’t sting nearly as hard as the one being felt by the people still locked up over the event without trial. Or how about the family of Ashli Babbit or Roseanne Boyland, who were both killed?

Also, one thing I’ve yet to see explained is the narrative that somehow this was an attack on the Constitution. There was no insurrection, and you don’t have to see the Carlson footage to know that. The “insurrection” narrative was a pretty dramatic description from day one; it never truly held water for the majority of the American people. Too few people actually cared to monitor the proceedings of the January 6 committee, and why should they? It reeked of partisanship from day one. It’s safe to say that Liz Cheney lost her job over it.

Speaking of Cheney, Republicans that have signed on to defending the Democrats’ narrative are looking more and more guilty of collusion every day. A bevy of Republicans have lined up to denounce Carlson including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, but as Carlson himself said, all they’re doing is exposing themselves for who they really are.

“If you want to know who’s actually aligned, despite the illusion of partisanship, we found out today,” Carlson noted on his show.

And he’s not wrong. Republican voters are continuously given reasons to distrust their elected officials, and this is going to be one of the biggest blows to that trust there ever was. These “Republicans” are aligning with a radicalized White House that has done everything in its power to grow its control over the country and ruin the lives of regular Americans for its own gain.

If anything creates a second Tea Party, it will come about as the result of Republican politicians betraying the people and siding with the despots.