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Fox News host Tucker Carlson outlines just what the impact of the 2022 midterm elections will be on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight:’
TUCKER CARLSON: A lot has been written about the corruption of politicians. You’ve seen that before, but really not enough has been said about how unbelievably boring they are in person. That’s the main thing you notice when you have dinner with them. Their main interest is themselves. That’s what they talk about. It’s all they can talk about, and it’s very tedious. Narcissism always is tedious — and so one of the great and happy and unexpected surprises of this cycle is how many interesting people are running around the country, people who have something to say that isn’t necessarily about them, people who have interests beyond just accumulating more power.
JD Vance in Ohio, Kari Lake and Blake Masters in Arizona, Joe Kent in Washington state, Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania — none of these people have been in politics before. All of them seem to be listening to voters, listening, not just talking, and amazingly, all of them could win on Nov. 8 and if they do, that’s a huge problem for the Democratic Party, and for the people in charge more broadly, it’s a potential disaster.
It’s one thing to elect more Mitch McConnells, tame Republicans who know what the rules are. The first rule, of course, is you must lose. People like that will play along as they faithfully have for decades, but what would happen if someone like Blake Masters or JD Vance wound up in the U.S. Senate? That would be disruptive.
These are not people who care about secret partisan arrangements or even about partisan affiliation. They might actually try to change the country for the better. So if you’re benefiting from the current disaster, that’s a scary prospect, but no one running for office right now is quite as scary to people like that as Kari Lake. She’s running for governor of Arizona. Lake may be the most skillful communicator in American politics right now, but most terrifying of all, she spent 30 years in television news.
When Kari Lake says the media are corrupt, she’s not guessing. She lived right in the middle of it for decades. This is a deeply unsettling message for Democrats to hear because it strikes at the heart of their power. Without the complicity of the media, there is no chance neoliberal Democrats could get elected to office — not one of them, ever. They’ve got nothing to offer you. It’s not like they’re improving the country.
Have you looked around? No, they need the media. The media are all they have. The liberal media, they’re not just annoying; they’re the key to the whole system. Take them away and everything changes. So, it’s essential to the people in charge that voters continue to believe that the so-called news coverage they see and read is real, that it conveys facts and not simply crude North Korea–style political propaganda, but Kari Lake knows better. She knows the truth. She has seen it and they truly hate her for revealing this secret in public.
Kari Lake has spent the last year absorbing the cruelest and most outrageous possible attacks from her former colleagues in the media. They’re not simply trying to defeat her in November, though of course they are. They’re trying to destroy her. They’re trying to make certain that no American voter ever has the chance to hear what Kari Lake is saying, because again, once people know it’s all fake, this isn’t news; these are lies and these lies are the key to keeping the people who are wrecking the country in power. Once people understand that, the game is over, it’s done. They have to stop Kari Lake. Here’s a sample.
MARIA CARDONA, CNN: Kari Lake was the picture, the image, the definition of a threat to our democracy.
CHRIS HAYES: Why the Democratic threat to Arizona is way more dire than you may think.
KRISTEN HOLMES, CNN: Kari Lake. She has made lies about the 2020 election, conspiracy theories.
OLIVIA TROYE: Kari Lake, who has been out there spreading false conspiracies and election lies still today.
ANDREA MITCHELL: Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who’s been called Trump in heels and will not say whether she’d accept a loss in her own race, is an extreme anti-vaxxer.
