Tucker Carlson: No One In Authority Is Keeping Order, This Is How Nations Collapse

Tucker Carlson delivered a 20-minute plus monologue on the ongoing national riots inspired by the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Monday night on his FOX News program Carlson denounced national and local leaders for not keeping the order and openly siding with "the destroyers."

TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: When the mobs came, they abandoned us. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. The nation went up in flames this weekend. No one in charge stood up to save America. Our leaders dithered. They cowered. They openly sided with the destroyers. In many cases, they egged them on. Later, they will deny all of this. They are denying it now. You know the truth. You saw it happen.

This is how nations collapse. With no one in authority keeping order — and so many in our professional class encouraging violence — American citizens are now forced to defend themselves. They have no choice. No one else is going to defend them. It’s possible that more people will be hurt in coming days. That would be a tragedy. But in environment like tis, more violence could very well lead to a cascade of new tragedies — to something far bigger and more destructive than anything we’ve seen so far. This isn’t over. It could be just beginning.

It’s hard to think clearly about any of this. The chaos, the destruction, the relentless lying from above — it’s too much. Americans are bewildered and afraid. But most of all, they are filled with rage — angrier than they’ve ever been. The worst people in our society have taken control. They did nothing to build this country. Now they are tearing it down. They’re rushing us toward mass suicide. How do we respond?

We must protect ourselves, and our families. Once again, we have no choice. But we can’t allow ourselves to become like they are. We are not animals. We are Americans. In the face of such indecency, we must resolve to be decent. We believe this country has a future. We intend for our children to live and thrive here. That is what we are defending. Our leaders do all they can to set us against against each other — a never-ending national cockfight, staged for their profit and amusement. But we won’t play along. We will love our neighbors relentlessly, in spite of all of it. Not because they look like us, or share our political views. But because they are human beings and they are Americans. Those are the bonds our leaders seek to destroy. We can’t let them.