Tucker: The left gets ready for a post-Trump world

because every single day of this year has been yet another page torn directly from a george orwell novel you can't believe it's real but unfortunately it is some democrats are now calling for a truth and reconciliation commission to try or assess trump supporters after the election truth and reconciliation commission this weekend for example former obama adviser robert reich was a labor secretary under bill clinton wrote that truth and reconciliation commissions would quote name every official politician executive and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe end quote several msnbc anchors have made the same suggestion chris hayes for example in july another msnbc personality offered a preview of these commissions let me take an example like the truth and reconciliation commission in south africa because a good example because apartheid went on for a long time but basically people would come before that commission and admit it was a truth telling they would say i did this and that was the birth of the concept of reconciliation because they were able to admit what they did wrong here in america we have a different problem in that there are a whole bunch of people say i didn't cause this problem might have been my ancestors or maybe i'm a recent immigrant it's somebody else's fault how do we convince people that it doesn't have to be their fault to be their responsibility to fix it south africa is the model seriously that's not a rhetorical point by the way or a demagogic one do you know anyone who lives there of any color how's that country going now seriously that's their model okay jd vance is the author of the book hillbilly elegy we're always happy to have him on the show jd great to see you so it's it's strikes me that one of the many ironies here is that a lot of people maybe a lot of higher income voters want to want the chaos to end they want something calmer so and they want they do want like actual reconciliation which is good and so they're voting for biden in the hope of that his supporters calling for a truth and reconciliation commission doesn't sound like a first step toward reconciliation to me uh no it doesn't tucker and this really is like you said torn from a page out of a george orwell novel because you know it's there's you know who can protest truth or reconciliation uh but a truth and reconciliation commission would not be about truth and it wouldn't be about reconciliation it would be about revenge and what i find just so preposterous about this idea setting aside the fact that it's it's just a terrible idea is that it's incredibly whiny right i mean these guys lost an election in 2016. they're unhappy about it okay i get it i wouldn't like losing an election either but instead of trying to win the next election and moving on with the life of american democratic politics they want to go backwards and punish everybody and i i just can't help but think why are you guys being total babies and talking about this the election is in two weeks focus on that and not on punishing the people who voted the way that you didn't like we've never done anything like that in this country i mean reconstruction was very tough on the losers obviously but we've never had a former president indicted for example we just don't behave that way in this country and i wonder if saying things like this isn't tampering with the formula of america i think it definitely is and what worries me most about this tucker isn't what it means about those who worked in the trump administration uh those who maybe can't find jobs now that they're looking for jobs in the private sector i see it more as a warning for the future whether it's a second trump administration or a republican president who comes after really what this is saying is you're going to be punished for trying to implement your ideals and principles and into the work of government as you know well you can't actually run a government with just one guy a president is obviously the most important piece but you need people running the cabinet departments you need people working at the white house and if the warning that's out there is we're going to come after you if you work in the administration of somebody who holds your values then it's going to be harder to actually staff a republican government governance that's right in the future so i i really think that this is a really dark threat that's going to cast a real paul over a lot of american politics for the next few weeks and hopefully not after that but of course we know when you open pandora's box it just keeps going yeah i think it's a really smart point that you just made it's scaring the hell out of people in the meantime and that has its own cost i would say jd vance great to see you thank you

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Id: LDrUQ0dUOWw

Length: 4min 35sec (275 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 19 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Funny thing about brainwashing is that the subject is the last to realize it was they themselves who were infected.

[u/jeffzebub]

"...they want to go backwards and punish everybody."

Well, to the extent there are people who warrant punishment under the law (e.g., Trump), then why should they be spared the consequences of their wrongdoing?

"...it's going to be harder to staff a Republican government."

Then stop ignoring the laws, fools!