Tucker Carlson: Black Lives Matter is working to Remake and Control the Country - and is Immune from Criticism
Black Lives Matter is now more popular than the
president of the United States -- and not slightly more popular than the president, much more popular.
A survey this week by Rasmussen, a right-leaning pollster, found that 62 percent of likely voters now have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter. At the same time, Rasmussen found that
Donald Trump's approval rating was 43 percent. That's almost 20 points lower.
And by the way, Trump was not alone. Black Lives Matter is far more popular than
Joe Biden, too. It's more popular than America's religious institutions -- all of them. It's more popular than the media, the
Congress and big business.
Black Lives Matter is more popular by double digits than both the
Democratic and the
Republican parties. It's almost as popular as the U.S. military. It's much more popular than the
pope.
The numbers are astounding, but the polls are not the only measure of it. One picture from a Black Lives Matter rally over the weekend in New York shows an ocean of people. Ask yourself the last time you saw a candidate for office who was able to draw a crowd like that?
The media, in their relentlessly fawning coverage, usually described Black Lives Matter as an activist group or a protest movement. But that's deception by understatement. Black Lives Matter is not a collection of marchers with signs. It's not a conventional political lobby like Planned Parenthood or the NRA. It's not pressuring Congress to pass some narrow new set of laws.
Black Lives Matter is far more ambitious than that. It is working to remake the country and then to control it. It's a political party.
As of now, Black Lives Matter may be the single most powerful political party in the United States. Nobody says that out loud, but politicians understand it perfectly well. If nothing else, they understand power; they can smell it at great distances. And that's why they're lining up to bow before Black Lives Matter.
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Tucker Carlson: Black Lives Matter is working to remake and control the country - and is immune from criticism