Tucker Carlson

Therefore, there is no justice.

Therefore, the most basic promise of America, which is that you will be judged by what you do, is invalid.

And so is democracy itself.

How can you vote for things if you don't know what they are?

Well, you can't.

You have no control in a world where the most important facts are hidden from you.

And that obvious observation, which spoke not just to Republicans, but to a lot of non-Republicans, famously, people who made up the Trump 2024 coalition, that promise was the promise.

The government will work for you and you alone, and you will know that because you're going to know what the government is doing.

Because of course,

Foreign lobbying of your government or lobbying by Big Pharma or lobbying by anybody of your government is by definition corruption because it gives more weight to the preferences of a small group of people than to the majority.

It's a betrayal.

It's a corruption of democracy.

It is corruption.

And there is probably no figure in modern history who embodies corruption more perfectly than Jeffrey Epstein.

Not because he was the worst person who ever lived.

He wasn't.

He was just an employee in a much larger structure.

He wasn't making independent decisions.

Come on now.

but he got away with it.