Tucker Carlson is trying to remake right-wing politics in the U.S. hpmacd writes
His book is a quick read – less than half this thick. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Last week, President Trump fired his ultra-hawkish National Security adviser, John Bolton. The exact reasons for the firing/resignation remain obscure, and the two men had fundamental disagreements over the direction of U.S. foreign policy. But it may be possible to pinpoint the moment Bolton fell from grace. On June 20, Iranian forces shot down an American drone in the Gulf of Oman.
The perfidy of the ruling class is Carlson’s great theme. Although he polishes off the odd statistic — by 2015, “fewer than half of [U.S.] adults lived in middle-income households” — he prefers to argue by anecdote. His favorite move is to hold up some hapless individual, generally rich, oblivious, and representative of one or another brand of elite malfeasance, and spend a few pages putting them to the rhetorical sword. Carlson is witty, in a cruel sort of way, so this can be entertaining.
It’s in many ways a typical Carlson point in that it both contains a grain of truth and flatters Tucker Carlson. Suicide really does kill several orders of magnitude more people than white-nationalist terrorism, and bad actors on the left have been scaremongering about the latter since Carlson was wearing a bow-tie on MSNBC.
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