America Was Founded by Conspiracy Realists … Like Tucker Carlson, by John Zmirak

If you weren’t watching Tucker Carlson last Friday, you missed the most important 15 minutes of television in decades. In a brief, pungent, fact-packed monologue, Carlson adduced the most important facts of our present political crisis, and key events in our history. Then he quickly and convincingly connected all the dots … which formed, alas, a swastika.

We live now under a burgeoning authoritarian government, as surely as any German stuck there in 1933. There too, a power-hungry minority of ideologues, allied with corrupt elites and thuggish mobs, employed Anarcho-Tyranny to seize hold of the government, without ever winning majority support. There as here, any opponents were quickly demonized as traitors and persecuted, while weaklings and squishes (see David French, Russell Moore, and Rod Dreher; Mike Pence, William Barr, and Mitch McConnell) scrambled to collaborate with the dictators.  …

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