IS A COWARD, THIS IS THE ONLY
MEDIA APPEARANCE AND HISTORY HAS
PROBABLY TURNED DOWN.
WE UPDATED, SHALL BE IS A SENIOR
FELLOW AT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION
AND AUTHOR OF "WHAT KILLED
MICHAEL BROWN" AND JOINS US
TONIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR COMING ON.
I THINK THE DEMOCRATIC THEORY
ABOUT REPLACING THE ELECTORATE
IS ACTUALLY WRONG.
I THINK THEY ARE NOT GETTING
WHAT THEY THINK THEY ARE
GETTING, WHICH IS KIND OF
AMUSING, BUT THE WHOLE NOTION IS
OFFENSIVE TO ME.
STUDENT THE PURPOSE OF A
GOVERNMENT BE, IT’S ONLY REAL
PURPOSE IS TO PLEASE AND ENHANCE
THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
THERE, OF ITS CITIZENS.
>> INDEED, INDEED.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE NO MORE ARROWS
IN THEIR WAIVER TO FIGHT WITH,
TO STRUGGLE WITH, SO THEY ARE
REDUCED TO SORT OF SCRAPING
AROUND FOR THESE TRAGEDIES LIKE
WHAT HAPPENED IN BUFFALO.
YOU CAN TURN FROM TRAGEDY TO
POWER.
I THINK IT IS ULTIMATELY
PROBABLY ALWAYS, WHATEVER
NARRATIVE OR SCENARIO GRABS
POWER, WHETHER IT MAKES LOGICAL
SENSE OR NOT.
>> BUT AT AN AWFULLY HIGH COST.
IT DOES FEEL LIKE THE SOCIAL
FABRIC IS REALLY VOLATILE, YOU
CAN FILE JUST WALKING AROUND, IT
IS REALLY OBVIOUS, SO INTO A
COUNTRY LIKE THAT, TO THROW
SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND SAY,
SEE, THEY HATE YOU SO MUCH THEY
WILL KILL YOU, SEEMS LIKE A
PRETTY RECKLESS THING TO SAY.
>> IT INDEED IS.
RECKLESS TO SAY.
I’M NOT ALTOGETHER SURE WHAT IT
IS THAT MAKES THEM SKIP OVER
REALITY, SO HAPPY TO SKIP OVER
REALITY TO THESE SORT OF FANTASY
CHARGES THAT THEY MAKE, BUT THAT
GETS US NOWHERE.
AT THIS POINT, THEY ARE ALMOST
WILLING TO DO ANYTHING.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE VERY MINIMAL
SCRUPLES ABOUT HOW TO MOVE
FORWARD IN AMERICAN LIFE AT THIS
POINT.
MY HUMBLE OPINION IS, I HAVE
WRITTEN A GOOD BIT ABOUT IT, ONE
OF THE GREAT COURSES -- ONE OF
THE MOST POWERFUL FORCES IN
AMERICAN LIFE TODAY IS WHITE
GUILT.
AND GUILT WAS SORT OF, YOU HAVE
TO SEEM TO BE GOING AGAINST YOUR
OWN SELF INTEREST TO GAIN THAT
EXPIATION THAT REDEMPTION THAT
WHITE GUILT SEEMS TO LONG FOR.
AND IT SEEMS TO ME THEY ARE
CAUGHT IN THAT.
AT THIS POINT.
IT IS TAKING US NOWHERE.
YOU CAN’T RESOLVE GUILT.
>> Tucker: NO, YOU CAN’T.
EXCEPT IN CHURCH.
DOES SEEM LIKE ORGANIZED
RELIGION IS A MUCH HEALTHIER
OUTLET FOR IMPULSES LIKE
THAT.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
THAT IS WHERE THE HUMAN
CONDITION ALWAYS GOES, IS TO
RELIGION, AS WE SHOULD.
>> Tucker: YES.
>> THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS IT
IS THERE AND THEY DO THAT ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
BUT THE LEFT IN AMERICA, THEY
ARE NOT DOING THAT.
THEY ARE SPITTING ON ANOTHER
SORT OF DREAM VISION, DREAMSCAPE
DREAMSCAPE, TO SORT OF
REWRITE -- PART OF THE PROBLEM I
THINK THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE
LEFT IS THEY HAVE NO -- THEY
HAVE BECOME EXHAUSTED.
THEIR IDEAS HAVE GOTTEN, WE HAVE
BEEN DRIVEN BY THOSE IDEAS NOW
SINCE AT LEAST THE ’60s.
THEY HAVE FAILED UNRELENTINGLY.
I MEAN, THEY FAIL WITH A KIND OF
ABSOLUTE PRECISION.
AND THAT -- THAT IS WHERE THEY
ARE AT.
>> Tucker: YEAH, AND THERE IS
A NIHILISM IN THE FACE OF THOSE