Barbara M Boyd@BarbaraMBoyd
Tucker Carlson left this movement the moment it required governing rather than commentating. His vision — and he's not alone — is MAGA as a retreat: local, agrarian, no hard power, no difficult deals. Peaceful hamlets. Hunting your dinner. Sovereignty without the burden of actually exercising it.
That is precisely the vision the British House of Lords has always offered the governed class. Just read Engels or Marx's other sponsor, David Urguhart. Stay local. Stay small. Leave the straits, the insurance markets, and the oil flows the Lords of London.
Trump used force, then used it as leverage for a deal, in a region the Lords have managed for a century. Tucker calls that a betrayal. The Lords call it an overstep. When your critics are identical, you're doing something right