Tucker Carlson claims faceless online trolls “have immense power over all of us”
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From the June 9, 2020, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): But the whole thing did get us thinking that we should be more specific about who this mob is and what they're doing. Who are the people trying to take over your country, cancel your rights, eliminate our centuries-long tradition of tolerance -- yes, tolerance -- and of free expression? And the truth is we often don't know their names. They're mostly faceless political agitators who exist primarily online. They're trolls who thrive on cruelty. And yet suddenly they have immense power over all of us. Weak leaders now reflexively bow to their demands no matter what those demands are. Why is that? What's changed?
Well, that's a much longer conversation, we probably ought to do an entire show on that topic and if the news ever calms down long enough to think in bigger terms, we will do that. But for now, it's enough to say that the country's defenses have been badly weakened by decades of relentless propaganda all of it designed to make us feel that we have no right to stand up for ourselves, to stand up for our country. We are too sinful to resist, we deserve whatever we get. Shut up and take it, America.