Tucker Carlson Suggests Politicians ‘Not Ready to Lead’ if They Don’t Love White Supremacists
Right wing author and pundit Mark Steyn says that “white supremacists are American citizens. The illegal immigrants are people who shouldn’t be here,” while claiming that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and CNN’s Chris Cuomo have a “preference” for “importing a class of citizen that they prefer,” meaning undocumented immigrants. Steyn insists lawmakers must put white supremacists ahead of undocumented immigrants.
Steyn made his vile remarks on Fox News Thursday, during “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Carlson, the conservative cable news network’s top host, responded by asking, “How can you lead a country whose population you despise?”
“Doesn’t that, kind of, prima facia, show that you’re not ready to lead if you don’t love the people you’re leading?”
Steyn, whom Carlson introduced as a “real thinker,” responded by saying “the Democrats are getting very close to saying that foreigners are God’s apology for Americans.”
An immigrant from Canada, Mark Steyn went on to tell Tucker Carlson that “the cultural transformation” by immigrants is “forever.”
“In Arizona a majority of the grade school children now are Hispanic. That means Arizona’s future is as an Hispanic society. That means in effect the border has moved north.”
Actually, it doesn’t. Not even close.Â
Rather than point out or push back on the astonishing racism he had just heard and enabled, Carlson called it “bewildering for people who grew up here.” Hispanics and people of many different backgrounds “grew up here.”
“I don’t think you have to be animated by hate or anything to say, you know, maybe I should have some say in how my country evolves,” Carlson concluded.
ThinkProgress‘ Judd Legum observes, “Carlson believes that it is legitimate for white people to want to exclude Hispanics from the the United States to preserve the country’s white identity.”
On Twitter, many expressed outrage.
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