Hard to believe this is the same timeline or even the same universe that we're in right now:
Look at these two old pals yukking it up:
Ponder for a second how normal this all feels, right?
Tucker: Let's assume the Democrats will control Congress in November. It certainly looks that way now. Now let's imagine a world where people like Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers hold the future of our nation in their hands! Muahahaha!
Here to help us ponder that terrifying probability, our old pal from Air America Radio, Rachel Maddow, joining us from new York. Rachel!
Maddow: Hi Tucker, nice to see you.
Tucker: Great to see you! What's the first thing, apart from nationalizing the railroads and passing the transgender amendment —
Maddow: (laughing)
Tucker: — that Democrats are going to do when they take power?
Maddow Well, there's a lot to get to right away. We have to make everybody get gay married, and we have to ban the Bible, and we have to send you to Guantanamo.
Tucker: (laughing)
Doesn't that just feel like a dispatch from a saner, healthier time?
So what changed? I don't think you need a map to figure it out: The Left went waaay off the deep end in the intervening years.
Conservative beliefs haven't changed much over that time: We still pretty much want limited government, strong families, a healthy entrepreneurial economy, a largely Judeo-Christian society.
You know, normal stuff.
But what about the Left? In the last nearly 20 years they've pivoted from sort of generalist New Deal-style progressivism to, well:
- Wanting to mutilate little boys and girls with poisonous transgender ideology;
- Wanting to turn the United States into a racially maximalist wasteland where literally everything has to pass through the prism of extreme left-wing views on race:
- Seeking to ruin the careers, the prospects and the lives of anyone who disagrees with them on anything:
- Forcing all of society to undergo an untested, potentially dangerous vaccine for a virus with a sky-high survival rate:
And too many other things to count!
In this kind of environment, it should be no surprise that people like Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow can't speak like they used to — that you can't really have a civil conversation marked by gentle jokes and mutual respect even in the face of notable disagreements. We just don't have that political environment anymore.
Don't forget what they took from us, America.
