Tucker Carlson

Gordon, thanks so much for doing this.

The reason I wanted to do this is because I think it fits.

I'm going to give you my one-minute overlay of why I think this is important.

It's always important when people are hassled and destroyed for things they didn't do wrong.

But I think the fate of truckers in the United States and Canada is part of a much larger trend.

So 10 years ago, I think this is correct.

I put it in a book I wrote that...

a driving for a living was the number one most common job for high school educated white men in the united states which is to say that people displaced by de-industrialization

The factories died.

The country went from making things to finance and real estate.

And the people left behind weren't helped.

They were destroyed by the Sacklers and drugs and also by kind of relentless hounding and scolding by the ruling class.

I don't quite understand what that was, but I just noticed it, have noticed it, still noticing it.

So driving, trucking was not only like a huge part of the working class economy, like at the center of the working class economy in the West, but also sort of symbol of like culture and autonomy, like I'm behind the wheel, no one can control me.

Exactly.

And it was celebrated, by the way, in the 70s and early 80s.

Exactly.

When, you know, Americans, ordinary Americans whose ancestors built this country were, you know, not considered criminals.

So, by virtue of being alive.

But anyway, I think this is part of a much larger shift in,