Wrong on the key specifics. And even more wrong on the larger meaning.
That’s the dual bottom line on the extraordinary screed last week against diversity in general, and immigration in particular, from Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson. …
Carlson said explicitly what is often left implicit: how much of the modern conservative coalition is bound together by resistance to demographic, cultural and even economic change. And he had one big thing right: the nation is growing more diverse and it has added a significant number of new immigrants in recent decades. …
But Carlson is wrong on his central accusation: that the change has bypassed the places where the nation’s leaders live. And he’s even more off-base to portray the growing diversity as a threat to native-born Americans.
Let’s unpack those claims. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN