New England is the cultural
zone of innovation and progressivism par excellence in the US. Conservative voices there have been rare as a
result. Yet when they do arise, they are
usually quite powerful and prophetic: from
the past, writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Frost, for instance; more
recently, Michael Warren Davis (author of The Reactionary Mind: Why
Conservative Isn’t Enough). It
appears that we may be able to add Tucker Carlson’s name to that list as
well. Even casual interviews with him
yield compelling ideas. In this one
conducted by Nicholas Bartulovic, populist conservatives/revivalists inside and
outside of government will find ideas worthy of reflecting upon and acting on.
Going in reverse order, near
the end of the interview, Mr Carlson exalts the broader ties of family that
have been eroded over the years, and encourages people to strengthen them once
again:
‘“Another thing that we have
completely forgotten in the West, but used to be a hallmark of it, is the idea
of loyalty to your family and your wider clan.” he continued,
adding that parents should foster that sense of loyalty as a tide against what
he called “substitutions” for family.
‘“Things are changing,
though, and what people in the last century substituted for family, like a
career, politics, and media, are now being reexamined, and a lot of people are
returning to and craving the real,” he said’ (‘Tucker Carlson: Do You Really
Believe Iran Is a Threat?’, theamericanconservative.com).
Those kinds of familial bonds
will help people to safely navigate a world that is brimming with gigantic
corporations ready to exploit them. Mr
Carlson calls out big banks in particular, and suggests a return to the
practice in the earlier years of Christendom that greatly restricted usury:
‘He then added, unprompted,
“You know, the best moment in this entire presidential campaign wasn’t the cat
memes or Joe Biden stepping aside, but was when Trump announced the other day
that he was going to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent. That was
truly brave! I never send candidates money but that actually made me consider
donating to his campaign.”
‘I asked him to elaborate.
“It goes to what we were talking about earlier—who is more an enemy of the
American people, the Mullahs in Iran or Chase Bank?” he asked. “It’s just crazy
to me that all Abrahamic religions have prohibitions against usury and somehow
we as a society are okay with banks sending out unsolicited credit card
applications to 20-year-olds who are still in college and charging people 25 to
30 percent interest, saddling them with debt for the rest of their lives? We
used to call that loan sharking, now I guess it’s just normal.”’
His last and longest piece of
advice is related to the country he mentioned briefly above – Iran. That advice?
Stop believing the reports put out by the War Party in DC (which includes
both Republicans and Democrats):
‘I asked what his
interactions with people on the tour had been like. Sounding somewhat dejected,
he replied, “There seems to be a lot of chaos, a lot of lying going on in our
country. I am amazed at the amount of blatant propaganda that people still believe.”
Asked what he meant specifically, he answered, “This stuff with Iran.”
. . .
The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/10/garlington-a-revivalist-platform-from-tucker-carlson/.
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Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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