Good night, everybody good evening welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. There is so much going on right now, so much from so many directions that at some point its worth, pausing turning off the headlines for a moment and framing what we are seeing in order to understand it. What you are watching right now is not simply a battle between two political parties or even two opposing world with views its deeper deeper than that. If you want to understand what is really going on, we are going to isolate just one slogan, that kind of decodes it all slogan is defund the police defund, the police. You probably havent heard that for a while in the weeks before the election, no elected Democrat would say those words in public so effectively they just disappeared. Yet in a lot of ways, defund the police defined this year in american politics. For months it was the central demand of the american left. It was the main thing it wanted and there was never any question

about what defunding the police would mean and really it was a remarkably straightforward slogan. Defund, the police meant defund, the police cut off their salaries, get rid of them, but why? What was the point of getting rid of the police? Come of defunding them thats the real question, its baffling really in conventional politics? The goal is always to improve the lives of your voters, give people something they want and in return they will vote for you thats the exchange, but who exactly wanted to defund the police. Was there a constituency for that whose life was going to be improved by abolishing law enforcement? Was there evidence that any ones would be improved? No, there wasnt, no academic study or white paper from some think tank in Washington even suggested that defunding, the police would help anyone. In fact, dozens of studies over decades proved exactly the opposite. It would make things much worse and that makes sense

how would dangerous neighborhoods become safer once there was no one around to stop crime and violence. Obviously they wouldnt become safer, thats ridiculous. If you thought about it for fifteen seconds, you would know that defunding, the police inevitably would wind up killing people thats, not an exaggeration, literally Americans would die funded the police. They knew that, but they did it anyway. Weve never seen anything like that happen. Here we had a lot of bad ideas in America over the years, but most of them hurt people by accident. In the late 1950s doctors prescribed to pregnant women because they seriously thought I drug turned out to cause horrifying birth defects. They were shocked and contrite, well, meaning liberals who designed our welfare system never dreamed it would destroy the black family and make poverty worse. That was an unintended consequence of a good intention. That is not what is happening here.

The left called for defunding the police, knowing full well what would happen next chaos. Chaos was the whole point of it: more rape, more murder and those were not byproducts. Those were the intended consequence think about that. For a minute, the people behind defunding the police tried to destroy society itself, thats, not politics, tearing down civilization, isnt a political position, its something much much darker than that its a kind of spiritual battle. That sounds like overstating it, but its not. We should understand the stakes here for a long time, though, we didnt understand when the defund, the police movement started this summer. Few knew what was going on as with so many faddish stereos that sweep our culture. Multiple just went along with it. Everyone else was,

and Blm vandals painted defund the police on a major thoroughfare in Washington right near the White House. The incompetence who, from that city were proud of it. They said so dead flies like Sandy Cortez from Westchester, went on television to explain that defunding the police was cool its what all the kids were doing its the future and therefore better its funny, because when people ask me what does the world where we defund the police, defunding police looks like I tell them, it looks at a suburb defunding, the police looks like a suburb, just like the one Sandy Cortez grew up in with lush lawns and full parties and hip moms in rain villagers and a pickup line fun, but the reality of defunding the police was very different. American cities did not become suburbs, thanks to Sandy Cortezs idea as summer continued computers.

What they look like. Indistinct, shouting, silent sounding banging indistinct shouting know that is not sandy Cortezs hometown thats, the reality of defunding, the police, our cities burn the elderly were beaten and killed by thugs crime skyrocketed in every metro area. In the country, things fell apart, as they were always going to. No normal person in either party can support this. So the architects of defund, the police, did what they could to silence.

All discussion of the topic- shh dont talk about it here is the president of the Minneapolis City Council, expending that Americans, who are uncomfortable with their homes being broken into in a world without police must be, and, of course, you can guess the punch line here, racist watch. Do you understand that the word dismantle or police free also make some people nervous, for instance, what if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into? Who do I call yes? I mean I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and I know myself too. That is something of privilege because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality. Where calling the police may mean more harm is done so calling the police is an act of bigotry.

Self defense is immoral. That was LISA Benders position again, thats, not a political position, thats a religion, but increasingly that was the posture of the entire democratic party, and you know what happened next. Inevitably, by August, shootings in New York City had increased by more than eighty percent 80. There is no precedent for that, because its never happened. Defunding the police was killing Americans in huge numbers and yet, remarkably, the very people who claim so loudly to care about gun violence decided not to notice what was happening. They never mentioned it by September, when virtually every person who could forward it had fled the cities in fear of disorder and chaos. Kamala Harris was still repeating the same Blm approved talking points still attacking the police. Here she is in a tape. She certainly wishes. Didnt exist.

Black lives matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system because it has been a counterforce to the force within the system that is so grounded in status quo and in its own traditions, many of which have been harmful and have been discriminatory in the way theyve been enforced. If republicans had been smart, that would have been a political ad last month. Black lives matter has been the most significant agent for change within the criminal justice system. What does that mean? Well, black lives matter had only one demand of the justice system and they shouted it over and over again into bullhorns in our streets. Defund, the police defund, the police. That was their demand. They said so they didnt hide it in many places. The authorities did just that, and you know what

happens next in Minneapolis, which was the first city in America to embrace this lunacy. More than a hundred cops are now leaving the force. Crime has become so bad in Minneapolis at the very politicians who once demanded that we defund the police are now begging for more police thats happening tonight. City officials are now considering bringing in officers from other jurisdictions to restore order and keep citizens from being killed, violent crime. There is up twenty two percent over last year. How did that happen? You know how it happened and voters do come too. Thankfully, this has been a disaster for the Democratic Party, not profound enough, but still no one is for it. Who is four defunding the police? Well, pretty much, no one. It turns out crime and chaos, scare, the hell out of homeowners, taxpayers, job holders, anyone with children or pets or cars or furniture or any expectation of life beyond this afternoon, defunding the polices nihilism and everyone knows that

most of the hispanic voters really hate the idea thats one of the main reason somebody voted republican last week. You have to be a desperately unhappy gender studies, major with a degree from Duke to think defunding. The police was a wise idea and it turns out thats the entire constituency for it unmarried unhappy, gender studies, majors from Duke thats, not enough people to win and election, and some of the smarter democratic leaders are starting to figure that out Jaime Harrison defund. The police showed up on tv across his head. That stuff hurt Jaime, and that is why I spoke out against it. A long time ago, right ive always said that these headlines can kill a political left. Jim Clyburn, ladies and gentlemen, telling it like it is defunding. The police is a bad

idea because it can kill a political effort. Oh not a bad idea, because it kills human being thousands of the poorest people in our society, which it measurably does. No one disputes that no. It is a bad idea because it can kill a political effort. That is the language. The democratic party and leaders understand its likely will be hearing a lot more about defunding the police. In fact, no one will ever again use that slogan. At some point it will be like it never happened. What was that something out of history? But it did happen and it had.