The disturbing link between Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene

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Greg Sargent
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It's notable that both Tucker and Marjorie Greene responded to the Chauvin verdict with wildly crazy hyperbole about BLM pushing US cities into collapse. Irrevocable detachment from reality in depicting the leftist threat justifies anything in response:

Opinion | The disturbing link between Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene
Once you free yourself to depict the leftist threat however you'd like, then anything goes in response.
washingtonpost.com
2:17 PM · Apr 21, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/21/tucker-carlson-marjorie-taylor-greene-reaction-chauvin-conviction/


It was hard not to notice that Tucker Carlson and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had an oddly similar reaction to the conviction of Derek Chauvin. Both responded with extraordinarily unhinged hyperbole about the violence they imagine is gripping urban America right now — or pretend to imagine, anyway.

Carlson’s reaction came amid a spectacular meltdown in response to a former law enforcement official who argued that Chauvin’s use of force was excessive. Carlson dismissed the point, saying: “I’m kind of more worried about the rest of the country, which, thanks to police inaction, in case you hadn’t noticed, is, like, boarded up.”

The implication was that, because of protests against police brutality, police are refraining from keeping order, tipping the country into civil collapse.

Of course, you probably haven’t noticed that the “rest of the country” is “boarded up,” because, well, it isn’t.

Carlson hammered away at the wildly exaggerated idea that the police were allowing the country to succumb to chaos throughout the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. His new innovation is that a jury holding a police officer accountable for the brutal murder of someone already in his captivity is what’s facilitating this.

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