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Tucker Carlson: “Politics filled that void [left by religion].”

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Published December 13, 2022 | Video Starts at 13:39

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 [left by religion]. And so political affiliation, not ideological alignment at all, nothing to do with ideas, but just the team sport of partisan politics replaced religion. (13:39–13:42)

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