The #1 New York Times bestseller from FOX News star of Tucker Carlson Tonight offers “a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers” (New York Journal of Books) in a funny political commentary on how America’s ruling class has failed everyday Americans. “Informal and often humorous…an entertainingly told narrative of elite malfeasance” (Publishers Weekly), Tucker … elite malfeasance” (Publishers Weekly), Tucker Carlson’s Ship of Fools tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you.
In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords and answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course? Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. “The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.”
Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight enjoy so much, Ship of Fools is “bulging with big and interesting ideas, presented succinctly with wit and precision, each chapter a potential book in itself” (The Washington Times).
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If you’ve ever wondered what the heck is happening in the United States—TV commentator and author Tucker Carlson has the answer. In a nonpartisan treatise, Tucker reveals how the nation’s rulers and influencers have hurt working and middle class Americans to empower themselves. Among the ruling elite Carlson includes leaders from both political parties, the news media and the tech giants, the feminist and environmental movements. If you care about the country and/or want to know what’s really happening behind closed doors in politics, this book is a must-read!
Relatively alternative political book though very informative and convincing.
If you are a Facebook user, an environmentally-conscious consumer, parents with children in publich schools, someone who is against all forms of racism or sexism, or simply someone interested in facts about the changes in our governmental leadership in the last several decades, you need to read “Ship of Fools.” I am very well-read and well-informed about current events, but this is the most informative book that I have ready in many years. This refreshing book is neither pro-Trump nor anit-Trump, though he factors in to some of the changes. With a blend of facts based on thorough and dependable research, along with common sense, Tucker Carlson “tells it like it is.” He gives the history that many don’t know, about the current issues, then provides behind-the scenes context that helps the reader understand the full situation, not just the sound byte on the news. Then he provides solutions for the problems tearing at the fabric of America. “Ship of Fools” should be required reading for every college student. It should be part of the balanced and diverse “Core” requirements, if there is such a thing, any more. If you read only one political book this year, do yourself a favor and read this one.
The title comes from The Republic by Plato, showing the wisdom of King Solomon that there is nothing new under the sun, and man does not learn from history and continues to make the same mistakes over and over again. The political class in Washington DC, consider themselves elite, smarter than the rest of us and no longer even care about the middle class and poor. They live in their walled homes and exclusive neighborhoods, where the illegal immigrants that they champion will not enter. Both Democrats and Republicans have disconnected with main stream America and the press, which should have been the watchdog, come from the same elitist neighborhoods. So the American people elected Trump, regardless of his vulgarity, because they hoped that he would listen to them- and he is. Carlson goes through numerous examples of how the political class and the press have lost touch. The hypocrisy of the watchdogs, women’s movement, those who support illegal immigration, stifling of free speech, the deep state, politicalization of “science”, the war on the white male. …etc. Written in Carlson’s humorous voice, he warns about the future turning into an Orwellian World.
Great take on how we got to where we are in American politics today. The divide between what the political class and the rest of us grows wider daily, while the political class grows increasingly isolated from the electorate. As someone who used to think of himself as a Democrate, this book illustrates why I came to feel they left me behind.
The one negative is that it doesn’t offer a prescription.
Stuff you thought you knew … but didn’t really.
This is a great book about the disaster in Washington DC.
the title says it all
It is sure the more powerful the roles are, the more detailed review of the folk is required. This is a very good case against non factual journalism, against idiots’ opinion published by very powerful folk like Soros. Collecting and presenting facts is a tedious job, but hey is it not that what journalists are striving and are proud to report regardless of political climate?