Tucker Carlson: “How do unvaccinated people hurt anybody?”

Carlson: “Our leaders realized that they could leverage fear to crush their political opponents”

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Citation From the September 29, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight 

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): How is it like drunk driving? How do unvaccinated people hurt anybody? Hey, Phil Murphy, got a second? We've got some time. Why don't you explain that to us.

It was just a year ago, or so, that if a politician got on stage and said that would be laughed off the stage. And a politician that endorsed firing thousands of health care workers during a pandemic, calling them criminals, dehumanizing them, would be reviled. Now, it gets applause.

Not because the science has changed -- the science is the same. It's because our leaders realized that they could leverage fear to crush their political opponents. And if that means fining people $700,000 for employing someone, throwing the weakest people in our society out on the street with no unemployment insurance, and no health insurance, they'll do it.