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The Tucker Paradox
Tucker Carlson, and the elite that hates elitism and democracy
Tucker Carlson has enormous influence on the most popular show on Fox News. But he’s a bit paradoxical.
Tucker doesn’t want people who immigrated to the USA less than a hundred years ago to be considered “real” Americans.
Tucker likes free speech, but not necessarily your chosen pronouns. He has gone so far as to question whether trans people exist.
Tucker doesn’t want the Green M&M to push an agenda of woke feminism, or to choose her preferred less sexy footwear.
Tucker wants his viewers to vote, but wants to discourage progressives to vote.
Tucker defends the “working class” but supports very costly tax breaks for the wealthy paid for by the working class.
Tucker doesn’t want democracy because he thinks only the right kind of people should rule, manage, dictate, and legislate. Maybe the “right” people must be “far right.”
Tucker doesn’t want super-rich people to hire low-wage immigrants because those newcomers may be replacing “real” Americans.
Tucker and Fox know that we are not the richest country on Earth because of slavery, exploitation, rigid hierarchy, sexism, genocide, ecocide, rapacious…