Vox: Tucker Carlson has sparked the most interesting debate in conservative politics
I thought it was interesting https://www.vox.com/2019/1/10/18171912/tucker-carlson-fox-news-populism-conservatism-trump-gop
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So he's just hoping it can all be saved from itself, again.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)brush
(53,759 posts)Guess he forgot about FDR signing the Wagner Act into law.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)underpants
(182,725 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)collections of workers that banded together to give them increased bargaining power...a....what's the word I want to use...union! of people that gave them equal bargaining power with businesses and corporations.
The government would protect these unions as much as the companies themselves.
Crazy idea I know.
Can't wait to see the response from the repug hierarchy!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)This is why left-wing populism makes a lot of us nervous, particularly when politicians explicitly praise the economics of the 1950s. Because Carlson could peel off a lot of the Broletariat with them.
LonePirate
(13,412 posts)There are no right wing solutions so Tucker can say I told you so as things worsen while he stands firmly against any realistic solutions.
brush
(53,759 posts)neither of which work except for the rich.
underpants
(182,725 posts)They still stick with the standard projection stuff - liberals are trying to control you!
Playing victim
Recently Ive heard a lot of this Populism from the Ivory Tower stuff. Also theres a standard bit about identity politics which was their creation back in the Lee Atwater days.
If you were them - especially Shocked and Confused Spice Tucker - what would you talk about? Theyve got to fill airtime.
dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Sentath
(2,243 posts)So this is just the right spitballing to itself and seeing what sticks so that it can pry apart and benefit the smallest group possible and still get the reduction in 'rebellious noise' that their masters are asking for.
Maybe we should get louder
Squinch
(50,934 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)Marcuse
(7,465 posts)Paladin
(28,246 posts)You need to be eating a lot more, Tucker, your face isn't anywhere nearly round enough to suit me. Try stuffing yourself with some of your step-momma's TV dinners---make her even more wealthy......