Tucker Carlson’s critique of unrestrained capitalism last week sent the Respectable Righ t into apoplectic fury. That’s why it’s irrelevant—and why Carlson is increasingly emerging as a name to conjure with.
In
a now-celebrated monologue on his Fox News show, Carlson blamed
multinational corporations and urban elites for the decline of Middle
America. [Mitt Romney supports the status quo. But for everyone else, it’s infuriating, Fox News,
January 3, 2019] He listed several social ills that he attributed to
unrestrained capitalism, including predatory loans, higher drug use, declining marriage rates, and shuttered factories.
Carlson
lambasted “conservatives” who bemoan the decay of the family but refuse
to consider if capitalism played any role in that tragedy. According to
Carlson, “conservatives” consider criticism of the free market to be apostasy.
He offered this blunt advice to Republicans who want to make America great again.
Republican leaders will have to acknowledge that market capitalism is not a religion. Market capitalism is a tool, like a staple gun or a toaster. You’d have to be a fool to worship it. Our system was created by human beings for the benefit of human beings. We do not exist to serve markets. Just the opposite. Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system like that is the enemy of a healthy society.........http://www.unz.com/article/tucker-carlson-routs-conservatism-inc-on-unrestrained-capitalism-and-immigration/
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