More: New book by Naples resident helps seniors keep their life in balance Carlson offers some solutions You need some distance from the people you’re covering.”

'I’m just saying if everybody covering this from the national level is from the same area of the people they're covering, you're not going to get very nuanced coverage. That may explain in part why so many national political commentators and polls predicted Hillary Clinton would defeat Trump, Carlson said. So they're too close to their sources to understand what's happening in the rest of America, he said. I’m just amazed that this all can be happening right in front of us.”Ĭarlson said he believes part of the problem is the national news media because many attended the same Ivy League schools as the people they cover. People are struggling to pay basic things like medical bills. 'Why are 23-year-old kids dying of fentanyl overdoses?' he asked. Most Americans never fully recovered except for the extremely rich, who now are wealthier than ever. He said the end of the middle class began in earnest after the Great Recession a decade ago. Watch Video: Tucker Carlson to replace Megyn Kelly on Fox

More: Oprah to turn Naples woman's book 'Love Warrior' into a movie 'I’m very frustrated by the dumbness of it all.” “What I do is try to describe what is happening and my frustration in watching the news coverage,' Carlson said. What’s going on is a small group of people is getting richer than anyone else has in human history and everyone else is languishing.'Īnd unless America corrects its course, he added, “Trump is just the beginning.” 'The economy doesn't work for most people. “If I could sum it up, I would say that almost all of our political volatility stems from economic causes,' Carlson said in the phone interview. And student loan debt continues to skyrocket. Parents nowadays continue to provide money for their children after they move out and graduate from college. 'Democracies don't work except in middle-class countries,' he writes.Ĭarlson pointed out how there's something wrong when people with household incomes of $80,000 annually cannot afford to send their children to summer camp. in 2015 and few cared or acknowledged it. In the book Carlson delves into the middle class and how he says it died in the U.S. ‘The economy doesn't work for most people’ Those on the ship are the Clintons, Democrats Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, neoconservative Bill Kristol and Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos. The cover features a caricature of Carlson's 'fools' in a ship about to head over a waterfall. Those who think the book will bash only Bill and Hillary Clinton and other Democrats will be disappointed, as it takes aim at both sides of the aisle, Carlson noted.

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