What Putin doesn't understand about Americans

According to the latest stats, almost 200 million people have clicked on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin. That sounds super impressive, but the stat I’d like to see is how many were still watching five minutes later. I’d wager not one in a hundred Americans would have watched that far. That’s what Putin doesn’t get about Americans and their politics. In Russia, he has a captive audience who don’t mind an hour-and-a-half preamble to the main course. In America, by contrast, if you can’t make your point in a thirty second sound bite, you don’t have a career in politics. So I’m pretty sure Carlson’s much ballyhooed one-on-one made no difference whatsoever in how Americans view Russia. It may however have caused at least some of them to marvel at the contrast between Biden and Putin. Ironically, the Putin interview came out the same day the Special Counsel report came out absolving Sleepy Joe of culpability for illegal handling of classified documents on the grounds that, to put it politely, Joe’s elevator can no longer be reliably counted on to reach the top floor. That charge woke Sleepy Joe up just long enough to call a presser where he offered a outraged soundbite condemning the Special Counsel. He should have left it there. Unfortunately, in the next breath he got Egypt confused with Mexico. Could it be any more obvious that the President does not rule the country?