Carlson made a point in his recent plug for Warren’s economic agenda of praising her for remaining silent about “identity politics” and for avoiding “hysterics about gun control or climate change” and skipping a “lecture about the plight of transgender illegal immigrants.” But of course the reason why Warren declined to discuss these topics (let alone mock and snidely dismiss them, as Carlson did) is that most of them have nothing to do with the economic priorities she aimed to summarize in the document Carlson was quoting. (Climate change does, in fact, play a large role in her policy agenda.) Any time Warren does discuss these subjects, she comes down firmly and unambiguously on the progressive side of each.
Carlson, by contrast, intersperses his indictments of capitalism with demagogic segments about the filth spread by immigrants, the horrors of diversity, and even the (wholly imaginary) threat of gypsies.
That is the kind of economic patriotism Carlson could end up hocking in a future presidential run — one that combines a more articulate version of Trump’s nativist xenophobia with the kind of sweeping attack on big business one typically associates with the far left and an equally savage assault on the moral “libertinism” of decadent liberal elites.
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