Tucker's Turning Point tirade should erase all doubt about MAGA racism.
Tucker Carlson is at it again. His rant at the recent Turning Point USA rally in Duluth, Georgia, built on his many previous racist tirades over the years. And if Carlson’s vitriolic invective weren’t bad enough in itself, the raucously responsive cheers from the young audience made the event even more disturbing.
MAGA's Next Generation
Apparently, the thousands of impressionable teens and twenty-somethings at the rally endorse Carlson’s blatant racism. Apparently, they agree with Carlson when he says that MAGA is the sane majority while those outside MAGA are the crazy cultic minority. Apparently, they agree with Carlson that seeing Elon Musk’s belly button at a previous Trump rally was a thrilling sign of the billionaire immigrant’s enthusiasm for patriotic Americanism.
Apparently, a new generation of coarse, cruel, racist, would-be fascists is keen to perpetuate the MAGA way. It’s a way of callous bigotry and misogyny. It’s a way of shameful hypocrisy. And, most transparently now, it’s a way of overt white supremacist racism. If anyone had any uncertainty about Carlson’s racism, the Duluth rally should have erased their doubt. To cheer Carlson is to embrace racism.
At that Duluth Turning Point rally, Carlson extolled the Confederate officers for whom idolatrous statues were erected and then disparaged the slaves of those same Confederates as “people who never built anything in their lives.” And the crowd cheered. And, Carlson added, the offspring of those do-nothing slaves have “spit on the graves of your ancestors.”
Yes, the vile children of the despicable, lazy slaves have shown shameful disrespect for the magnanimous, creative, hard-working slave-owning Confederates who built this great country.
We've Been Too Nice
According to Carlson, this “nice,” “polite,” “thoughtful,” “empathetic,” “sweet” country that “loves dogs and gives directions to strangers” (what is that about?) must no longer “put up with” such civil behavior toward the nation’s enemies from within. And to that, the crowd erupted in affirming ovations.
“The first reason we can’t put up with it for just one more minute,” Carlson said, “is because it’s just not justice. … You cannot reward the most parasitic, useless, violent, nasty, aggressive people in your country. … In a fair, decent country, the people who work the hardest, who have the highest level of talent, who are the most creative … those people should be revered. … Kamala Harris shouldn’t have a job. She has no skills.” And again, the crowd roared approvingly.
Yes, the crowd of young MAGA disciples loved hearing Tucker Carlson—who inherited a fortune from his fabulously wealthy stepmother and who never did a day’s worth of real work—label his opponents as useless parasites. They cheered at Carlson’s disparagement of a dark-skinned woman whose educational and professional resume easily outranks his.
Without a second thought about the peculiarity of the statement, they applauded when Carlson claimed Kamala Harris couldn’t change a truck tire. So? Could Carlson or Trump do so? Would either of them deign to dirty their soft hands in such an endeavor? (If I had an F-150 with a blown tire, I’d have more confidence in Harris to change it than either of the two wealthy, indulgent white guys.) Then, Carlson continued, proclaiming that Kamala Harris’s ascension to “the top of the pyramid” is “an offense against the truth, against reality, and against justice itself.”
And "the second reason we can’t put up with it for just one more minute," Carlson asserted, is that “if you allow it [whatever “it” is], you will encourage more of it. … There has to be a point when dad comes home.”
Devoted Dad Will Bring the Discipline
Guess who the disciplinarian dad is who rescues the family from the overly indulgent mom’s permissiveness. Of course, it’s Donald Trump. In MAGA world it makes perfect sense for the man who spent his entire life indulging himself—with multiple adulterous affairs, with ripping off business partners and contractors, and with serial lying—to bring home the punitive paddle and restore domestic tranquility.
But again, the crowd roared its approval. Anyone who thinks a defeat of Donald Trump at the polls will end the MAGA ethos is deluded. America has a bleak future.
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