Tucker Carlson is one of the few in the official media who seems to have a clear view of what is really going on in the country, and also in the rest of the developed world with regard to the vast culture war that is currently underway. That war can be seen in many areas of our world today; politics, art, entertainment, finance, foreign policy and on and on. It is not simply a war between left and right. Those labels seem inadequate to describe the process that we are seeing today given that the battle lines have Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the line.
No, the fight is between globalist elites who want centralized control of everything in their hands vs nationalists who want local sovereignty and local control of their own destinies, whatever that might mean to them. We see this play out now daily with the corrupted institutions on the side of the globalists and the people fighting back using alternative and social media, protests and elections to turn the tide away from the global elites. This fight will go on for some time until in the end one side or the other wins. Tucker Carlson seems to understand this and recently put out this commentary on his show. AmRen reports on the story below. Worth reading the whole thing for an in-depth analysis.
Note: Bloody Shovel also has an excellent essay on this which you can read here.
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, January 11, 2019
Fox News commentator has raised the ire of Conservatism, Inc.The conservative movement is uniquely hobbled. First, its supposed leaders are less committed and militant than its followers. Second, it may be the only political movement in America that tries to dissuade followers from productive action, rather than inspiring them to fight. This explains why prominent conservatives are attacking Tucker Carlson for his powerful monologue blasting America’s governing establishment.
Mr. Carlson criticized Mitt Romney for his recent Washington Post op-ed against President Donald Trump, but the attack was a springboard for a larger critique of America’s elite. He suggested that unwavering support for a “finance-based economy” and an “internationalist foreign policy” is destroying the country. “Anyone who thinks the health of a nation can be summed up in GDP is an idiot,” declared Mr. Carlson.
Instead of focusing on increasing the quantity of “stuff,” Mr. Carlson suggested “happiness” is a better goal for national policy. However, America’s leaders are indifferent to the well-being of its citizens.
We’re ruled by mercenaries who feel no permanent obligation to the people they rule . . . they’re just passing through. They have no skin in this game and it shows. They can’t solve our problems, they don’t even bother to understand our problems.
Mr. Carlson argued there is a direct connection between economic policy and the health of families. He said that families are collapsing both among black, inner-city Democrats and white, rural Republicans. “Stunning out-of-wedlock birthrates, high male unemployment, a terrifying drug epidemic,” Mr. Carlson added, describing some of the problems Americans face. Meanwhile, our rulers either don’t see problems or just ignore them: “It’s easier to import foreign labor to take the place of native-born Americans who are slipping behind.”
Mr. Carlson made no explicit defense of white interests. However, he did highlight the racial caste system embedded in the American government and economy: “They hand out jobs and contracts and scholarships and slots at prestigious universities based purely on how we look.” “There’s nothing less fair then that,” he added, “though our tax code comes close.”
Mr. Carlson said Republicans should oppose “some people getting special treatment” with “everything they have.” He argued Americans should want “a fair country” and a “cohesive country,” “a country you might recognize when you’re old.” “A clean, orderly stable country that respects itself.” He concluded by warning that though libertarians and some conservatives may charge that any kind of intervention in the economy is “socialism,” socialism is likely to be what Americans will get “very soon” unless the American Right grapples with the real problems people face.
In response, several conservative or libertarian critics accused Mr. Carlson of promoting victimhood politics. They instead propose something best called “anti-politics,” arguing that Americans should not mobilize against the establishment because people are responsible for their own problems. Using the state to pursue private interests is mistaken or even immoral.
