"It's Carlson's Skepticism of Inequality and Free Market Capitalism That Makes Me Even More Worried"

"Tucker Carlson's book is so dangerous because it's partly right. Neoliberalism is bad! Democratic leaders have neglected poor and middle-class people! Many liberals seem to identify more with bosses like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg than with labor unions. But you know who else says that? Bernie Sanders. One interesting aspect of Carlson's book is that he doesn't mention the 'left-liberal' divide. He talks constantly about 'liberals' and 'Democrats,' without noting that there is a strong dissenting faction (13 million votes in 2016) that rejects this 'elite consensus.' This is important: it means that, for the economically struggling white people who might be tempted to agree with Carlson, there is an alternative that offers the same critiques of capitalism without the bigotry and nationalism."

Nathan J. Robinson at Current Affairs reviews Tucker Carlson's Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.