In an interview on Tuesday with Die Weltwoche, a Swiss weekly magazine, Carlson told Urs Gehriger at his Fox News office in Washington, D.C. that Trump has not kept his promises and has not achieved his goals.
"His chief promises were that he would build the wall, de-fund planned parenthood, and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn't done any of those things," Carlson said. "I don't think he's capable. I don't think he's capable of sustained focus. I don't think he understands the system. I don't think the Congress is on his side. I don't think his own agencies support him."
Carlson said that he does not believe Trump is the type of president that makes a promise and then has the ability to hunker down and see it through to completion.
" I've come to believe he's not capable of it," Carlson said.
Saavedra also reported that Carlson explained that he doesn't believe Trump has really achieved anything because "the legislative process in this country by design is highly complex, and it's designed to be complex as a way of diffusing power, of course, because the people who framed our Constitution, founded our country, were worried about concentrations of power."
"They balanced it among the three branches as you know and they made it very hard to make legislation," Carlson continued. "In order to do it you really have to understand how it works and you have to be very focused on getting it done, and he knows very little about the legislative process, hasn't learned anything, hasn't surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn't done all the things you need to do so. It's mostly his fault that he hasn't achieved those things. I'm not in charge of Trump."
Carlson is generally correct with all of the above.
However, as I have explained at EPJ, Carlson is terrible when it comes to economics and he also revealed this side of his thinking during the interview.
"Capitalism drives change, innovation change, the old ways give way to new ways of doing things, and in the process of change the weak get hurt always. This was true in industrialization 100 years ago and it's true in the digital revolution now," Carlson said. "What's changed is that nobody is standing up on behalf of the people who are being crushed by the change."
Yes, that is Carlson's bizarre thinking. The great innovations such as the smartphone, the development of the internet and flat-screen televisions have somehow hurt the masses!
Carlson later appeared to suggest that socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the future.
"Is that really so?" Gehriger asked. "Look at the grassroot movement on the left: Alexandra Ocasio Cortez and her socialist group. It is probably a 100 years ago when Americans last saw a socialist movement of substance emerging?"
"Yes," Carlson said. "You're absolutely right. That's the future."
Notice how he didn't knock down that a socialist future is a horrific thing.
The Leninist activist, Ocasio-Cortez, it appears, may have even sucked in Carlson.
-RW
(ht David Mueller)
The nuts are truly running the nut house!
ReplyDeletebut the nuts have always run the the nuthouse.
ReplyDeletefrankly the wall. PP and obamacare where the red meat tossed out to the voters. basically the only things of note that trump has achieved are a massive defense increase bill, a revenue neutral tax act that hit wealthy blue state people and trolling lefty millennials.
I wonder if thats something for the Kremlinologists out there.
I find it best to assume that everything is under control - including squeaky, rude Tucker Carlson and the rest of Fox news. If I assume that nothing important changes for the better and that the world is always drifting slowly and determinedly toward more war and less freedom, then I am almost never taken by surprise.
ReplyDeleteI assume that males will invent utterly unnecessary fights with one another and that females will mate with the winners, like all the "higher" mammals. I yawn a lot.