The Folly of Tucker Carlson’s Neo-Feudalism | The American Spectator

Well, it appears that Tucker Carlson has finally gone medieval. In a recent conversation on The Tucker Carlson Show between Carlson and Auron MacIntyre, podcaster at TheBlaze and author, Carlson made the claim that the feudalism of the Medieval Ages was far better than what we currently have today. “I completely agree, feudalism is so much better than what we have now,” Carlson states, “because at least in feudalism the leader is vested in the prosperity of the people he rules, right? You know if all your serfs die, you starve.”
Whether it’s feudalism or neo-feudalism, both fundamentally reject the ideals of our nation’s constitutional republican order and the principles of the free market.
Carlson’s unusual embrace of feudalism came during his talks with MacIntyre over what they see as the collapse of the “American Empire,” whose elites have manipulated the system in their favor by engaging in various exploitative measures. These actions — including forever wars, multiculturalism, the opening of mass migration, and unrestrained free trade — in the eyes of Carlson, have allowed the elites to exploit the average American at the cost of losing control of the nation they rule.
But how do all these grievances tie back to Carlson’s unusual support for feudalism? Well according to Carlson in his introduction, it’s simply a lie told by the elite that feudalism is bad. “Today, I want to talk about how they lie to you,” Carlson said in his introduction, “They just lie. [cackles] You’ve probably been told, for example — I certainly was, this is just how it is in America — that feudalism was a bad thing. But is it?” Carlson went on to state, “England’s famous villain, King John, may have been a bad guy — who isn’t? — but he didn’t import 10 million illegal immigrants, did he? He didn’t kill anyone with fentanyl.”
Though Carlson’s embrace of feudalism appears to come from a place of deep frustration with the status quo, his sentiment about feudalism is not something incidental….