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Tucker Carlson: “You can't have a country of 350 million people governed by…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement

Published | Video Starts at 57:28

Give us the money for our preferred little country or else we're going to denounce you, man. Those attitudes are incompatible with leadership and, in fact, with democracy itself. You can't have a country of 350 million people governed by boutique goals and concerns. I really care so much about this thing. And you better care about it, too, Russ. I'm going to attack you and deplatform you. It doesn't work. It's illegitimate, actually. (57:28–57:38)

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Asserts that a large country cannot be governed by niche interests.

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