Ed, I have the greatest respect for the constitutional acumen of author of your referenced Substack post below, but he has “jumped the shark” with his unfounded KKK racial slur. There is no basis in fact for the predicate for the KKK allegation, i.e., that the referenced Antifa “creep” was Black. In fact, those who watch the news or have access to reporters like Andy Ngo know that the masked Antifa Black Shirts are overwhelmingly White. There is no reason, either, to have sympathy for hoodlums who launched nightly firebombing attacks over the course of 120 days against the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, along with countless arson attacks on local Portland businesses, violent physical attacks on Portland law enforcement officers and violent, anti-First Amendment attacks on speakers with whom they had political and ideological disagreements. These people are, indeed, the “creeps” who have made major cities on the West Coast - San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle - unlivable. What is so interesting about Carlson’s interior monologue is his admitted remorse for having succumbed to the mob mentality. “I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?” Regrettably, Tucker Carlson was “deplatformed”, not because of racial issues, but because he provided a national voice for the _expression_ of views on the issues important to the Committee for the Republic and most of the participants in our Salon—Empire, War, Peace and adherence to Constitutional principles enunciated by our Founders. With Tucker gone, who will carry the torch on the following issues so important to the continuation of Constitutional government in our country?
Tucker may had had his faults, but his banishment creates a huge and apparently unfillable void in our national discourse and informed understanding of national and international events. So, I beg to differ. From: Salon <salon-bounces@listserve.com> On Behalf Of Edward Hughes via Salon Bruce Fein has an uncompromising Constitutional view of our national opera and this one is true to form regarding Tucker Carlson. I don't agree with all of Bruce's positions but his intellectual honesty is powerful and piercing. If you don't already, you should follow him on the substack. Edward Hughes |