Tucker Carlson and Grover Norquist: The Rapprochement

One of the more amusing aspects of Monday’s RNC debate was the sight of the Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller and Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax reform, two of the debate’s moderators, sitting side by side at the same table. In the past, the two have not been the best of friends, to put it mildly. In 1997, for example, Carlson wrote that Norquist is a “mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep…an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home…[he] is repulsive, granted, but there aren’t nearly enough of him to start a purge trial.”