Donald Trump is the key to returning democracy to America, political commentator and veteran talk-show host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“The entire point—from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today—for Donald Trump’s public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader’s duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other,” Carlson said. “Another word for this is democracy.”
Democrats and many in the media repeatedly have claimed that Trump is an existential threat to democracy. But, Carlson noted, politicians in Washington have refused to respond to the will of the people for generations.
“Democracy, in case you’re a little sick of being beaten in the face with ‘democracy’ on television, actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of the…
