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Mike Lee (R-UT) has resuscitated the racist & discredited Moynihan Report (1965) to argue that MLK would agree with white nationalist Tucker Carlson that a conservative populism (what historians generally refer to as fascism) is the best road forward. Happy MLK day everyone!
Worth noting that since Mike Lee was born in 1971, his party of choice has rarely garnered more than 10% of the black vote. I just can't imagine why that is. Clearly, the problem here is that black people don't know how to vote right. Right? <sarcasm>
Many people say that The National Review is just The Federalist or Breitbart with a bowtie. This "MLK would totally agree with Tucker Carlson" hot take sure adds credence to that interpretation.
This would be a good time to remember that white supremacists like Richard Spencer think Tucker is on their team.
This might also be a good time to remember that Tucker serves as a pipeline through which fake, racist stories migrate from the white supremacist right into the Trumpist right. Like the bogus story on South African farmers Tucker ran. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
So yeah, Dr. King was a man of the cloth who was a brilliant wordsmith, but my guess is that his response to being invoked as an ally of Tucker Carlson by a member of Donald Trump's Republican Party would be something along the lines of "GTFOH!"
