Tucker Carlson exposes how Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and Texas’ Greg Abbott ignore public will—Whitmer enforces unpopular misgendering laws despite <0.1% support in SE Michigan, while Abbott’s border inaction defies Texans’ demands, even after Carlson’s private push for action. Both governors allegedly prioritize donor interests over democracy, with Abbott admitting to Carlson he’d avoid tough stances. The episode frames this as elite betrayal of majority rule, questioning whether U.S. governance functions as a true representative system. [Automatically generated summary]
You can have a system that nobody actually supports except the people directly benefiting from it.
This is the main thing I've learned in the past five years.
I'm 54, I've lived in this country my whole life, and because I, unlike everyone else in Washington, actually kind of believed in the basic premise of democracy, which is the majority rules, that's the most basic fact of democracy.
The people run their own government.
If you get a majority of people to vote for something, that's now the law.
And that's totally untrue.
You can put it in a ballot referendum, some judge will overturn it.
Well, what about democracy?
You could spend billions of dollars on a foreign policy theory that nobody actually supports.
Doesn't matter.
In the end, most governments are run by a small group of people for their own benefit without reference to what the majority wants.
And I hate to believe that that's true in this country, but all the evidence suggests that it is.
In fact, it's provable.
You know how you prove it?
Public opinion polling.
Take a look at the latest Gallup poll.
Pick a poll.
What are the top ten issues for people in the United States?
And then compare those to the priorities of your leaders.
So people are leaving Michigan because it's very hard to make a living here and you're constantly hassled by a government that never stops growing and that is leeching off an economy that hasn't grown in decades, okay?
That's the truth.
Take a look at the priorities of the low IQ lunatic who's running your state, Gretchen Whitmer, who deserves zero respect, no respect.
Her priorities are what?
Putting you in jail?
Well, if you quote misgender somebody, what percentage of the population of the state of Michigan, even southeastern Michigan, is on board with that as a top concern?
It's like roughly around a tenth of one percent, okay, in that range.
The things that people care about, Gretchen Whitmer couldn't care less about.
Because democracy isn't functioning.
If democracy was functioning in America, in Michigan, in California, the District of Columbia where I live, the state of Maine, the state of Texas, how many Texans do you think are all on board with letting 7 million people cross into their state illegally?
What percentage?
Zero.
Zero.
I don't care what your race or national origin, nobody is for that.