The analysis accurately diagnoses the GOP's over-reliance on a single personality, but it mistakes a leadership crisis for a permanent end. It is a sharp critique that underestimates how populist energy will eventually find a new vessel.
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Tucker Carlson Just Admitted IT'S OVER For The GOPAdded:
So, after Thomas Massiey's loss, uh, Tucker Carlson says that the Republican party is dead. This is one thing that I do agree with Tucker Carlson on. This is not me going to bat for Tucker Carlson.
Don't think that. Don't think I've flipped or anything like that. Don't think he's won me over because he's not.
I always tell people, do not trust Tucker Carlson. He is definitely not anyone we could ever trust or have on our side because he's never going to be on our side. He's just at the moment trying to figure out where to go to have a career when this is all over because at least he realizes that it's about to be all over. And if there's a silver lining in that cloud, it is, folks, because Donald Trump can't live forever.
And what we've learned is that if Donald Trump's name is on the ballot, his cult will show up.
What we've learned is that if Donald Trump sicks his cult on someone within his own party, the cult will show up.
But when his name isn't on the ballot, they or he doesn't stick them in any direction. They don't show up. They don't give a [ __ ] because they weren't showing up and giving a [ __ ] before he came along. I've said this for so long.
Donald Trump brought people into the American political conversation that were never here before. Um these these people didn't vote. These people didn't get on the conversation. These people were watching a steady diet of Jerry Springer and a steady diet of reality shows and a steady diet of pro wrestling and a steady diet of football. And they saw this celebrity come along and start telling them how bad their lives was and blaming it on everybody under the sun.
And he tapped into their hatred, tapped into their cruelty, tapped into their the fact of how cynical they are, tapped into their racism. He tapped into all those things and he uh he wrote it all the way to the bank. But once he's gone, I can't really see them getting excited about a JD Vance. And I can't really see them getting excited about a Thomas Massie. I really don't think Thomas Massie will have much of a career after this. You may see him emerge somewhere when they try to rebrand after this is over and he'll try to be one of the guys that says, "I told you so." And I'll still be sitting there saying, "Don't trust him. Don't vote for him." Because again, all Thomas Massie did was the bare minimum. He just stood against pedophilia, which is something we should all do. And he stood against wars, which is something we should all do. and he was against the funding of Israel, which we should all be. So, he doesn't really get a lot of brownie points here. But Tucker Carlson sees the writing on the wall. He realizes, you know what?
There's going to come a day that Trump ain't going to be here. And the Republican party is already dead. All that's propping it up right now is the Trump cult. And once the leader is gone, where's it going to go? So, let's take a look at this clip from Tucker and then we'll talk more about it. This election itself, was it another part of the humiliation ritual?
Was it a way of saying to the rest of us? People sort of believed in democracy. It's all fake. We can get a guy whose last name we can't pronounce elected on a platform everybody in America hates because we can. Cuz we're billionaires and you're not. And of course, our priorities are not aligned with yours. In fact, we hate your priorities and we hate you. We're going to do this to you anyway. Even in Kentucky, we can do it. It's possible that's the message they were sending.
Pretty certain, actually.
So, on one level, this is the saddest moment in a long time.
It's not just the death of Thomas Massiey's immediate political career, which may be resurrected. One never knows. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. But it's also, of course, the end of the Republican party as we thought we knew it. The Republican party of right now bears absolutely no resemblance to the Republican party we thought we had just elected less than a year and a half ago. None at all. Its parties are completely different.
its slogans are completely different. It is not the same thing. And maybe there's a working majority somewhere of people who support the new priorities of the Republican party, but the question would be where is that? Herets's readers clearly do. They think that was the most important race in America. Amazing that they were following it. But in this country, nobody supports this. Nobody does.
I love how he says those of us who sort of believe in democracy. I I caught that. I want y'all to know I don't sort of believe in democracy. I believe in it wholeheartedly. So that's one big difference between me and Tucker Cross.
He sort of believes in it. He's kind of dabbled in it a time or two, but uh that that that just leap off the page of me.
I don't know why. But uh anyway, he goes on to say that uh the MAGA is dead because I know what he's getting at. I mean, everything they fought for or supposedly fought for, now they've thrown it under the bus by throwing Massie under the bus. I mean, they were all about draining the swamp and all about exposing the the pedophiles. And then when they realized Trump's name was in there more than anybody else, they immediately started pumping the brakes on that. So, yeah, a lot of their ideas are kind of meaningless. But then when he says the part about, well, we thought this was the Republican party. We thought it was. Dude, I could have told you from day one when Trump came down that escalator, this ain't the Republican party of like Mitch McConnell. Speaking of Mitch McConnell, who will no longer be around after this year in in politics, this is it for him.
He's been in there since 1984. I was four years old when he came in. So, I don't ever remember politics in my part of the world without Mitch McConnell's name being spoke. But I don't think for a second that the Mitch McConnell's of the world in 2016 or the Lindsey Grahams or the Marco Rubios or any of those people, if you go back and listen to what they had to say about him back then, they did not like him, nor did they want him in their party.
But they realized they could not win without him. And they saddled up and got behind him.
They saddled up and got behind him. And as they went along, he completely destroyed what was left of their name.
And let's be realistic. I really believe this. Maybe I'm wrong, but I really believe it. I believe that if Donald Trump had have never came along with this mega cult of personality, with this pro- wrestling heel type of gimmick that he does, um I don't think the Republican party, I think we would have had Democratic presidents ever stepping away because I think Barack Obama, you know, had uh had had done so well and we had we had made so much progress under Barack Obama and the Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell style Republican, it was dead back then.
Tucker Carlson. It was it was on its last legs. Then Donald Trump tapped into the to the fear, the paranoia, the cruelty, the racism. He tapped into all those things and the resentment of Barack Obama. He tapped into that as well. And that's really what I think ended up playing out and what's still playing out to this day. I really still believe that a lot of stuff you see happening is still them expressing their resentment for Barack Obama. And they'll try to twist this and tell you that, well, now Obama made everything racist.
Man, Obama made everything about race.
We'd move past racism because we elected a black president not once but twice.
Did you? They're Republican. Did you do that? Cuz you didn't vote for him.
That's one of the most ridiculous arguments I've ever heard. No, it was it was people like us that voted for him.
You didn't. You was shouting him down every step of the way. But I still believe that a lot of stuff you see today is resentment of Barack Obama.
They could not stand to be led by someone as intelligent and someone is that was such a good leader and someone who was black like Barack Obama. So we're still having to live through that [ __ ] But the Republican party's been dead for a long time. Donald Trump just cashed in on the darkest underbelly of it and pushed that to the moon. And then he's going to be gone one way or the other. He'll sit and joke around, which I don't think he's joking. I think he's just trying his damnest to stick around.
He don't want to favor face accountability. But, you know, he's going to talk about, you know, being here in 2032 and possibly, you know, being president till he passes away.
Talk about FDR serving for, you know, four terms. He'll he'll he'll say all these things because he definitely does want to stick around, but he can't live forever. one day, Donald Trump will no longer be on the ballot and he won't be there to tell his cult to go after somebody. And when that day comes, I think a lot of those people will just go back home. I think a lot of those people will just say, "Well, that was fun while it lasted." They'll go back home and they won't have an interest in it anymore. You'll have some dieards that will hang around and you'll have some people that's got so wrapped up in the game that they'll kind of want to see the spin-off or want to see the rerun, but spin-offs and reruns never last very long. I never did finish that Sons of Anarchy spin-off. Did you? I mean, who does? I mean, it just It doesn't happen. Cults doesn't Who followed Jim Jones? Who followed David Crash? Does anybody know? No. No one knows. So, the Republican party is dead and the MAGA movement is definitely on its last legs because they've already proved to us that all the stuff that they said they were about, they weren't about it at all. So, all we can do now is we have to come forward with a stronger message.
And we have to we have to come together and put what differences we have aside to work together for the greater good and realize that no matter what rises from the ashes of Donald Trump [ __ ] we have to stand against it. So if it's a Tucker Carlson Thomas Massie ticket I'm going to be sitting here saying listen I don't care how much you think you've agreed with them over the years. They're not us. They won't vote with us. They're not for us. They sort of believe in democracy. They're not like us.
So, it's up to us to come with a stronger platform. It's up to us to let people know exactly what it is that we stand for. We need to keep doubling down talking about a living wage, talking about universal healthcare, talking about women's rights, talking about voting rights, talking about democracy, talking about being there for the gay and trans community, talk about taxing billionaires, talk about not funding Israel, talk about no more wars, which some of those things were MAGA talking points that they don't care about anymore. And let's never stop talking about the Epstein files. No matter what happens, let's let's open that Pandora's box if it's the last thing we do.
We have to come out stronger than ever with a strong message or someone like a Tucker will come in and appear to be reasonable.
The biggest fault I see on our side is we're too busy a lot of times turning each other down and we're too busy a lot of times um getting in arguments over things and saying, "Well, I'm just going to stay home on election day or I'm not going to vote.
I'm going to write in a third party.
That's never got us nowhere. A lot of people tried writing in Jill Stein back in 2016 because I was mad at Hillary.
How'd that work out? It didn't. A lot of people thought Kamla wasn't doing it enough when it come to Israel and Palestine. And they went out and screamed at her.
And now look at Donald Trump. I mean, one could argue that Israel basically bought out Massiey's seat. It's pretty blatant.
So, we just have to stay on top of our messaging and get stronger with it. And, you know, like so many people have talked about, we just have to talk common sense and talk down to earth and talk to people. And that's why I believe that you're seeing more people turn to independent media than they turn to the mainstream news. Because when they turn to the mainstream news, they just see they just see puppets and they just see caricatures and they don't they don't believe in any of it. And that's what caused us to get in this mess to start with. You can love Trump or hate him, but he spoke to him. He said all the wrong things for all the [ __ ] wrong reasons. But he resonated. We have to resonate with people, too. And we have to resonate on the side of the greater good. But yeah, I agree with Tucker Carlson. The Republican party's long gone, and Donald Trump ain't got much shelf life left himself. So, we have to be here with a strong message. And whatever rises up and tries to be the spin-off of MAGA, calls himself something else, I promise you it'll still be that same thing that's been kicking in progress all of our lives and our grandparents lives. This didn't just start yesterday. This isn't something new. We've been dealing with this for years. It's just been out there under different names and different people waving the banner. Somewhere Richard Nixon probably is rolling over in his grave. Not because he's appalled by what's happened, but he's probably upset that he had to resign over things that don't mean [ __ ] anymore.
He's probably just eating alive with envy wherever he's at looking down or looking up in his case. But, uh, yeah, I just think that we need to keep pushing the message forward and, uh, be ready to face whatever comes next from that side and it will always be kicking against whatever progress it is that we are trying to make. So, with that said, I just want to thank everybody so much for supporting what I do here on the channel. We're on the road to a million subscribers. If you haven't already, be sure and hit it and we will get there and we'll keep calling this stuff out and we will keep standing on the side of truth and democracy. We don't sort of believe in it, Tucker Carlson. We believe in it wholeheartedly and we'll always be here fighting for it.
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