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Jeffrey Lord may have been fired from CNN for no good
reason, but he continues to publish on various websites, including American
Spectator. Yesterday, he posted his review of Tucker Carlson’s bestselling Ship
of Fools. It’s a rave, and I am posting a few paragraphs, either for
those who are interested in reading the book or those who want a short précis
instead:
A serious look at a serious American problem
by a serious thinker
A truer examination of a serious
American problem could not be had.
In his new book, Ship
of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of
Revolution, Tucker Carlson gets to the heart of the seriously bad
situation that confronts America.
Ship
of Fools is, says the opening flap of the book, “the story of the new
American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination
even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now
barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own
mountains, watch sporting events from the stands in skyboxes. They have total
contempt for you.”
In thumbnail, that could not
possibly be a more accurate description of American elites, not to mention the
reaction they produced: the election of Donald Trump. As someone who long ago
left the precincts of Inside the Beltway Washington, D.C. to come home to the
wilds of Central Pennsylvania, it was plain what was coming down the pike in
November of 2016. This area was awash in Trump signs. They were everywhere,
even hand-painted on the sides of barns. As it were, this was a sure sign of
what Tucker describes this way:
Trump’s election wasn’t about
Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class.
It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of
selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy
countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do.
Bingo.
Read the full review here.
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