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welcome back to a special edition of
tucker carlson tonight now
defund the police which was the battle
cry of the left
has borne fruit and it's destroyed
cities across the country
thousands of people have died because of
it as the crime rate spikes
but the neighborhoods of the people who
called for defunding the police
are exempt they have private security
lots of private security we know this
for a fact federal filing showed that
sandy cortez for example a big defund
the police
has spent thousands of dollars this year
on personal
bodyguards for herself including ex
blackwater contractors
everything is animal farm now but that's
nothing compared to the bill that corey
bush of missouri
has racked up in less than three months
this year corey bush spent nearly 70
thousand dollars in campaign funds for
her own personal police
force and at the same time as she's
surrounded by armed bodyguards the
donors were paying for
she was calling for you to lose your
police protection
now she was asked on wednesday how
exactly this works and as you watch
this tape imagine the reaction of the
chinese in beijing
as they watch this jaws open thinking
this is who runs the united states we're
in good shape ladies and gentlemen
cory bush i'm going to make sure i have
security because i know
i have had attempts on my life and i
have too much work to do there are too
many people
that need help right now for me to allow
that so if i
end up spending 200 000 if i spend 10 10
10 more dollars on it you know what i
get to be here to do the work
so suck it up and defunding the police
has to happen we
need to defund the police and put that
money into social safety nets
because we're trying to save lives i'm
going to make sure
i have security so suck it up and defund
the police
your police
just look at that cold let's say you're
from a foreign country and you saw that
you would think to yourself
whatever political party she's aligned
with should have no power
that's too crazy it's too stupid
it's too reckless by the way all the
billionaires who are
funding the da's who've made our country
far safer the ones more dangerous rather
the ones who are letting murderers out
of jail in places like la and new york
and chicago and philadelphia
they don't care if you died they never
did but corey bush just made it explicit
she
really doesn't care
so the country is more politically
polarized than it's ever been
largely because of so-called leaders
like the ones you just saw
the people in charge of our country
don't seem that interested about the
lives of american citizens they just
want to be more powerful
you wonder how long can a system like
this go on
michael anton has thought a lot about
that question he's a former speechwriter
a former national security official in
the last administration and he sat down
for us with a long and fascinating
conversation
on tucker carlson tonight on fox nation
here's part of it
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in the competing two models the blue
state model versus the red state model
um it seems to me there's a real serious
will on the part of the blue side
to rule the reds yes and the reds both
have no
desire from what i can tell to rule the
blues but they really
also don't want to be ruled by the blues
the red states are kind of the ottoman
empire they you can kind of practice
your own weird sectarian religion if you
want unmolested
and the blue states are like the soviet
empire like
you have to read the catechism or else
you're in deep trouble
yeah and that that's that that's a
problem and
if if these two governance models as the
thesis of the book kind of has it are
the
contending for the future of the united
states um
they're not contending on equal terms no
they're not that is to say they're not
saying
we're one of us is going to win and one
of us is going to lose um
because i think the red model is if you
would just back off and let us live the
way we want to live in certain ways
alone everything would be fine i mean a
great example
um to me it's it's hugely important is
energy right
there's almost no issue on which texas
and california differ more greatly leave
aside the cultural issues per second
a real public policy question right
texas has a thriving oil and gas sector
it's one you know the most uh
the strongest in the union probably um i
think
for sure and texas as a public policy
question from the governor's office on
down is all
in for this because they think it's good
for the state it's good for local
companies it's good for business it's
good for workers right
we're all in on this california sees
itself i'm sure other states too but
california you know as a green energy
pioneer
but there's no in the california mindset
there's no possibility of peaceful
coexistence because in their view texas
view is california develop all the wind
and solar you want great if it works out
we're rooting for you we're going to do
our own thing the california mindset is
texas as long as you are drilling oil
and pulling gas up out of the ground and
burning hydrocarbons you're killing us
all
and we must force you to stop they won't
it's hard to see what the basis of
compromise
on those two on that issue is yes
whereas you know like i say texas is
willing to compromise theirs is an
evangelical faith
yeah and it yeah it's it's almost like
eighth century islamic actually um
what happens if we don't do this i think
the polarization will get worse and
worse and worse
and uh you know i think public opinion
could eventually come to a breaking
point i mean i guess
you'd have to say there's two
possibilities one is the red parts of
the country just
they give up and they say all right
we're never going to get out from under
and there's nothing we can do
in which case i think you'll see and you
and i have talked about this before
we've already seen a certain amount of
decline in in lots of ways in red
america i mean life expectancy down
opioid crisis jobs all these things have
happened they
they induce hopelessness they um they
they kind of suck the spirit out of out
of areas and they don't they cease to
thrive
i think that could happen if red america
just feels like
we've lost control of our destiny our
rulers you know
are far off you can't even petition them
they won't listen they're going to do to
us whatever they want to do
the other possibilities you can see some
kind of you know a real revolt that is
to say if people make
over time repeated good faith efforts to
resolve this question
politically at the ballot box you know
if through compromise and are just told
over and over and over again no
you could see a backlash that could take
a number of forms i
i think the reason why we should start
talking about this is because
that backlash um will not be good
michael anton that conversation went on
for nearly an hour
it's all on a brand new episode of
sucker crossing today on foxnation.com
and well worth it we think
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