Op-Ed: Dick Morris: Tucker Carlson Gets It Wrong

Fox News anchor 👤Tucker Carlson got it wrong when he spoke of “replacement theory” as the new dynamic in American politics. Leaving aside the efficacy or appropriateness of Tucker’s comments, they are just politically absurd.

“Now,” Carlson said, “I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World. But they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually. Let’s just say it: That’s true.”

“I have less political power because they’re importing a brand new electorate. Why should I sit back and take that? The power that I have as an American guaranteed at birth is one man, one vote, and they’re diluting it. No, they’re not allowed to do that. Why are we putting up with this?”

Tucker’s wrong.

If our electoral and political history proves anything, it is that people change when they arrive on these shores.

Two centuries ago the Anglo-Saxon Americans feared the arrival of Irish, worrying that their Catholicism would lead them to the left and make them a revolutionary minority undermining our country.

A century and a half ago, Italian-Americans were seen as leftist revolutionaries, bomb-throwers, akin to the likes of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, who were said to be behind plots to destroy our society.

Now, Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans are no longer leftists, but more often side with the Republican Party.