By Bill Wilson
Recently Tucker Carlson made news yet again with one of his expert interviews. Since leaving the sinking Fox News ship, Carlson has shown a real knack for doing the exact right interview at the exact right moment to convey the deeper and more telling story of the current political and cultural meltdown in which we all live.
During his two-hour conversation with liberal journalist Mark Halperin, Carlson elicited the comment that the election of Donald Trump would result in the biggest, most dangerous mental health crisis ever witnessed.
That was news. Halperin asserted that tens of millions of Americans would be so distressed at the election of Trump to the White House that we would see the equivalent of a national mental breakdown. But as startling and discomforting as that statement may be, it was not the real message, not the point that needed to be driven home. That point is in fact far darker and more ominous than Halperin’s 19th Nervous Breakdown.
In defining how the left in America would see the election of Trump, Halperin said, “They [leftists] think that fellow citizens supporting Trump is a sign of fundamental evil at the heart of their fellow citizens and the nation.”
“Fundamental evil.” He is saying that for tens of millions of leftwing Americans, to support Trump is to be evil, to be beyond the realm of normal society. But what about the reverse? Are those who support Trump and the entire Make America Great Again (MAGA) Movement allowed to have a similar view of the left? Are we allowed to look at four years of total disregard for the principles of America, see the thousands of political prisoners rotting in the Garland gulag, watch as our borders are erased and billions of our tax dollars shipped off to foreign wars and not see “evil” or worse? Apparently not. It would appear that only those deluded individuals who buy the lies and manipulations of the deep state are allowed to have a high moral sensibility.
And were that the end of Halperin’s admonishment, it would be bad enough, but in a way normal. The radical left has played the game of being pure while everyone who does not toe their line is dirty and bad for a long time. It has become tiresome and frankly a bit sad. But that was not the message that Halperin delivered.
As the conversation got darker and more threatening, Carlson asked if there is nothing to be done, nothing that could help the mentally ill and forestall the violence Halperin predicts. And right on cue, Halperin has the answer: surrender.
Look at Halperin’s words on how to avoid the “crisis” and coddle the mentally deranged Marxist thugs that roam our streets, sit in our schools of higher learning and populate a hundred thousand coffee cafes.
Halperin declared, “I hope that Trump handles it well. I hope that he recognizes his responsibility and self-interest. That he chooses in his words and his cabinet and White House appointments and nominations and his initial legislative agenda — I hope he seeks to minimize the mental health crisis… [emphasis added]”
Translation from Washington-speak into plain English: go ahead and win but hand everything of value over to us in the permanent Washington. Turn your back on the tens of millions of Americans counting on you to restore America to its proper bearings. Take the prize and then surrender.
So, question, Mr. Halperin: did Biden and Harris and the mob of leftist lunatics that have been installed in the current regime hold back for one second? How long did it take for Biden to sign 94 Executive Orders opening America’s borders to the illegal invasion? How long did it take them to spend so much borrowed money on their Green New Steal scams that inflation crushed America’s families while the few zealots walked off with mountains of ill-gotten gain? How long was it before the incompetent, anti-American fools at the Pentagon cut and ran out of Afghanistan leaving billions of dollars of weapons behind for very bad actors and got the 13 brave American sons and daughters on the ground in Kabul killed?
How long did it take them to start jailing citizens for exercising their First Amendment rights, or for praying or for daring to stand up at school board meetings to protest the evisceration of their children? This list of affronts, insults and outright attacks could go on. But the point is that those who are about to elect Donald Trump do not want to hand anything to you or your co-conspirators ever again, except maybe a jail sentence.
You are trying with these statements and this framing to lay the blame on the victims when violence happens. But it is your side, sir, that has the armed Antifa thugs ready to go. It is you who have politicized the police and military. It is you who have set the stage, daring American citizens to stand and fight.
I know this. If President Trump follows your simpering, treasonous advice, the millions will turn their backs on him. And once freed of his presence, they will have to decide for themselves how to respond to the mentally ill provocations. And if that happens, you will regret with all your heart that you had urged him to abandon his base.
Bill Wilson is the former president of Americans for Limited Government.
