Why they hate Tucker

I'm catching-up on my reading, and came across this from Brendan O'Neill over at Sp!ked: "Why they hate Tucker Carlson. Good read all around, but this in particular struck me: "This is the irony of Tucker Derangement Syndrome: the very people who fear the rise of Carlson created the conditions for the rise of Carlson. You think you can condemn the masses as a ‘basket of deplorables’, as imbeciles who ‘cling to guns or religion’, as gammon and Karens, as lizard-brained lowlifes, as gullible white trash led astray by Trump and Brexit, as transphobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic creatures in urgent need of re-education, and that there won’t be consequences? Get real. Carlson is the consequence."

This is similar to my own thinking on the rise of Donald Trump. When the political establishment decides that certain points of view are not merely misguided, but that they are so far beyond that pale that they will no longer be mentioned; that they are outside the bounds of polite conversation, then it should not be surprising that individuals step forward to give voice to those perspectives, whether as pundits or as poltical candidates. Thing is, since the establishment now considers these perspectives to be outside the bounds of polite conversation, the people who step forward are going to be very impolite. They will not be nicely coiffed, mellifluous traffickers in the euphemisms of the day. No: they will be the sort of people who don't care what the New York Times (or those who read it) think of them: they'll be men like Donald Trump & Tucker Carlson.

In other words, the rise of the men our elites claim to fear and loathe stems directly from those elites' unrelenting drive to silence any opposition; to render dissent from their world view socially unacceptable. Congratulations!

06/08/23 17:03

The rise of the men our elites claim to fear and loathe stems directly from those elites' unrelenting drive to silence any opposition; to render dissent from their world view socially unacceptable.

The rise of the men our elites claim to fear and loathe stems directly from those elites' unrelenting drive to silence any opposition; to render dissent from their world view socially unacceptable.