Tucker Carlson: “Political affiliation, not ideological alignment at all…”

“But over time, as religion kind of receded from people's lives, which it did, it was a pretty religious country in 1991 when I started. It's. It's a very secular country now. Politics filled that void. And so Political affiliation, not ideological alignment at all, nothing to do with ideas, but just the team sport of partisan politics replaced religion. And all of a sudden, it became impossible to be honest about anything because you don't want to betray your own team.” (13:42–13:52)

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