https://spectator.org/tucker-carlsons-ship-of-fools/
Tucker Carlson’s ‘Ship of Fools’
Jeffrey Lord
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...Ship of Fools is, says the opening flap of the book, “the story of 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 from the stands in skyboxes. They have total contempt for you.”
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This is a superb book, filled with eye-popping information on just how today’s American ruling class conducts itself. As soon as the book appeared, it shot to the top of the bestseller lists, as well it should.
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Violence is in the DNA of the American Left — and it always has been. From the use of the Ku Klux Klan as the military arm of the Democratic Party to labor violence, the 1960s Weather Underground and anti-Vietnam War protests, not to mention the window smashers of Occupy Wall Street and now the hooded thugs of Antifa, the Left’s instinctive use of violence has never changed. It is imperative to understand that this is, indeed, straight-up fascism.
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It is amazing — and I have written on this subject a great deal in this space — that to believe in a colorblind America as Tucker Carlson does, to oppose identity politics, the latter which I have long since termed the son of segregation and grandson of slavery because it is, in fact, racist — is to be accused, of all ridiculous things, of “white nationalism.” It should not escape that the Carlson accusers on this score have a serious projection problem.
As Ship of Fools makes crystal clear, Americans face a serious problem in dealing with this cast of characters who populate the American elites. These elites do indeed hold millions of Americans in contempt — and the election of Donald Trump was the answer. But Donald Trump will not be president forever, and, as Tucker points out, “if you want to save democracy, you’ve got to practice it.”
PAY DIRT!
An important post and excellent summary of Tucker’s incisive book. Great quotes on the cover flap.
YOU just sold a book!
We need this book, and to pass it on to our kids or our grands.
‘Ship of Fools’!
Thank you. I have started to read Tucker's book. Tucker has an insightful, conspiracy-free view of what has happened to our country during his lifetime (nearly 50 years). In the early going he focuses particularly on the increasing financial gap between rich ("the elites") and poor, and the decimation of the middle class. Avoiding the conspiracy side of things probably makes his writing more digestible to what we now call "normies", but I think it misses the big picture.
In the rest of the book he talks about uncontrolled immigration, excessive wars, the anti free speech movement, the insanity of diversity as a core value, the increasing craziness of gender, and the hypocrisy of the greenies. But he doesn't get to the core issue of a self-empowered super elite who really want the little people to just disappear (and are planning to help them do so), and who meanwhile do great injury to morality, wages, security, and happiness.