Tucker Carlson: “Driving for a living was the number one most common job for…”

“But I think the fate of truckers in the United States and Canada is part of a much larger Trend. So, like 10 years ago, I think this is correct. I put it in a book I wrote that Driving for a living was the number one most common job for high school educated white men in the United States. which is to say the people displaced by deindustrialization. The factories died. The country went from making things to finance and real estate. And the people left behind weren't helped.” (00:35–00:42)

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