Tucker Carlson’s now-famous monologue, in which the Socrates of Fox News suggested that the usual GOP cocktail of tax cuts for the rich, reductions in social programs, and deregulation might not be the solution for struggling rural communities, has provoked both positive and negative comments from the right. Reformicons and their allies generally agreed, while the National Review crowd howled; the latter take the position that the plight of white workers is vastly overstated, and to the extent that it exists, it is their own fault, and government cannot and should not fix it.
And the GOP claims the Democrats are sneering elitists!
Analyzed in terms of the four factions, Carlson is proposing that the Reactionaries reject the economic program of the CLs and the PBPs in favor of one that directly assists white workers. Since the foundation of the GOP since Reagan has been a bargain in which the PBPs get tax cuts and deregulation, this is a very dangerous development for the right, and the Democrats would be wise to exploit it.