Fox News Host Turns Populist??!!

[mart48]

At https://www.vox.com/2019/1/10/18171912/tucker-carlson-fox-news-populism-conservatism-trump-gop

Last Wednesday, the conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson started a fire on the right after airing a prolonged monologue on his show that was, in essence, an indictment of American capitalism.

America’s “ruling class,” Carlson says, are the “mercenaries” behind the failures of the middle class — including sinking marriage rates — and “the ugliest parts of our financial system.” He went on: “Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.”

He concluded with a demand for “a fair country. A decent country. A cohesive country. A country whose leaders don’t accelerate the forces of change purely for their own profit and amusement.”

The monologue was stunning in itself, an incredible moment in which a Fox News host stated that for generations, “Republicans have considered it their duty to make the world safe for banking, while simultaneously prosecuting ever more foreign wars.”

[dalton99a]

1. .

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Who the

FUCK took over his body for that monologue?????

[Javaman]

3. never ever underestimate the awesome power of the opportunist to save their own skin. nt

[Phoenix61]

5. Can I use that? nt

[David__77]

4. Fascism gives lip service against capitalism.

It’s how it consolidates a support base. Carlson won’t support policies aimed at reducing the economic polarization in society.

[WeekiWater]

6. When you hear someone espousing populist rhetoric.

Run like hell. More often than not populist rhetoric leading to "populist" victories turns into horror for the masses. Far too many people fall for it and don't know how it has historically worked out in societies who have fallen prey to it.

[zipplewrath]

7. He wrote a whole book

I saw it in the book store and had to check twice that it was THE Tucker Carlson. This is part of the synopsis:

In Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you.

“They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate,” Carlson writes, “as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they’re gone.”

In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. “The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.”

Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight have come to enjoy, his book answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?

I haven't read the book, but I read an intro and he suggests that the nation elected trump as a big middle finger to the ruling class.