Tucker Carlson continues to rant about “Papa” Trump beating up a “bad little girl.”

Fox News exile-turned-independent right-wing troublemaker Tucker Carlson launched into a deeply wacky extended metaphor at a rally for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, comparing the Republican candidate to a “father.” painful and “energetic blow” will give “bad little girl.”

Speaking before Trump at the event in Duluth, Georgia, Carlson compared a Trump victory in next month's presidential election to “Dad coming home,” prompting a thunderous ovation from the staunch MAGA crowd.

Carlson, in his convoluted and idiosyncratic style, posited that America was a misbehaving child and that Trump was the patriarchal savior who needed to beat it up.

“If you allow your 2-year-old to smear the contents of his diaper on your living room wall and do nothing about it, if you allow your 14-year-old to light up a joint at the breakfast table when…” “If you allow that “If your hormonal 15-year-old daughter slams her bedroom door and gives you the finger, you're going to get more of it and those kids are going to end up in rehab,” the fiery talk show host told the crowd. “It’s not good for you and it’s not good for them. No, there has to be a point when Dad comes home.”

Carlson said that when “Dad” Trump comes home, “he's angry” but “not vindictive” and “loves his children, however disobedient they may be.” He then said that the father figure needs to make it clear to the metaphorical child “that he is very disappointed in her behavior.”

And here things came dangerously close to the uncanny limits where Humbert Humbert and fascist-coded rhetoric meet.

“When Dad comes home, do you know what he'll say?” Tucker asked. “‘You were a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a severe beating.”

Carlson noted that this spanking, in the words of the imaginary ancestor who administered it, “would hurt me more than it would hurt you.” I'm not going to lie. It's going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me.'”

When Trump took the stage later at the event, the loyal MAGA flock chanted “Daddy's home” and “Daddy Don.”

The metaphor never quite caught on and explained what a “vigorous beating” of America by “Dad” Trump would look like in practice, even though former Trump allies and longtime opponents have warned in recent days that he is in office would be a “fascist”.

Trump's former chief of staff, retired US Marine Corps General John Kelly, said this week that he meets the definition of “fascist,” and Vice President Kamala Harris agreed with him on Wednesday in the town hall.