I have to admit
I tried watching
the first half hour
of Carlson's
Fox News TV show
a few times,
but couldn't stand it.
He invites leftists
on his show
and tries to
debate them.
But leftists
do not debate
-- they just spout
their memorized
talking points
louder and louder,
if they are "polite",
or character attack
Republicans and
conservatives,
if they are typical.
Tucker Carlson
believes
Trump's claim
that he has kept
all campaign
promises,
is disingenuous.
During an interview
with Die Weltwoche,
Switzerland's
"Newspaper of Record",
Carlson was asked:
"Do you think he ( Trump )
has kept his promises?"
"Has he ( Trump )
achieved his goals?"
Carlson's
unusually honest
answer:
"No. He hasn't?
No. His chief promises were that he would build the wall, de-fund planned parenthood, and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn't done any of those things. There are a lot of reasons for that, but since I finished writing the book, I've come to believe that Trump's role is not as a conventional president who promises to get certain things achieved to the Congress and then does. I don't think he's capable. I don't think he's capable of sustained focus. I don't think he understands the system. I don't think the Congress is on his side. I don't think his own agencies support him. He's not going to do that.
I think Trump's role is to begin the conversation about what actually matters. We were not having any conversation about immigration before Trump arrived in Washington. People were bothered about it in different places in the country. It's a huge country, but that was not a staple of political debate at all. Trump asked basic questions like' "Why don't our borders work?" “Why should we sign a trade agreement and let the other side cheat?” Or my favorite of all, "What's the point of NATO?" The point of NATO was to keep the Soviets from invading western Europe but they haven't existed in 27 years, so what is the point? These are obvious questions that no one could answer."
Carlson also said
the Democrat Party
was out of touch
with the working class:
"Well, that's the remarkable thing. For 100 years the Democratic Party represented wage earners, working people, normal people, middle class people, then somewhere around-- In precisely peg it to Clinton's second term in the tech boom in the Bay Area in Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Democratic Party reoriented and became the party of technology, of large corporations, and of the rich. You've really seen that change in the last 20 years where in the top 10 richest zip codes in the United States, 9 of them in the last election just went for Democrats. Out of the top 50, 42 went for Democrats. The Democratic Party, which for 100 years was the party of average people is now the party of the rich."
