WATCH: Tucker Rips AOC and Tlaib for Trying to Assert Power “Based on Race”

In a passionate monologue, Tucker Carlson ripped freshman lawmakers AOC and Rashida Tlaib for playing the race card in asking for votes.

Tucker shows how absurd this “racist” strategy should be by asking viewers to “imagine a white candidate saying vote for me based On race.”

From RCP

Tucker Carlson delivers a monologue on how the Democratic party is “now a religious cult” and members will be punished if they don’t toe the line.

TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS: After almost 200 years, the Democrats were a political party, with conventional political goals. No longer. The Democratic Party is now a religious cult, with all that implies. Dissent has been banned. Anyone who questions the party’s leftward fringe is denounced as a racist heretic. The party has descended into a purity spiral and no one is safe, not even the party’s own leaders. Nancy Pelosi is the most leftwing speaker of the house in the history of this country. She has been a fire-breathing liberal for longer than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been alive. But it’s not enough to save her. Ocasio-Cortez and a tiny group of House freshman demand explicit socialism, right now. They want to open the borders, empty the prisons, and take over the entire US economy in the name of fighting climate change. Pelosi may agree with their goals, but she has contempt for their total ignorance of the Democratic system. She’s made the mistake of public expressing that contempt:

Lesley Stahl: She likes to minimizes the conflicts within her caucus. Between the moderates and the progressives.

Lesley Stahl: You have these wings– AOC, and her group on one side–

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: That’s like five people.

For this, Pelosi is facing a revolt from within her own party. She’s being denounced, of course, as racist. Here’s Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib explaining that Pelosi is oppressing people of color:

TLAIB: More people like us, people of color have been missing in the chamber because most of us – and Ayanna Pressley says it more beautifully, people that are closest to the pain needs to be at the table making these decisions. Guess what, we know what it feels like to be dehumanized. We know what it feels like to be brown and black in this country.

RADDATZ: What would you say to Nancy Pelosi? What would you say directly to Nancy Pelosi?

TLAIB: Uplift the women, especially the women of color, within your caucus that are out there because I’ll tell you more people like us, more people like me that come out to vote, we win, all of us win.

“Give us power because of our skin color.” That’s Tlaib’s argument. Ocasio-Cortez made the same case during her Democratic primary campaign last year. By definition this is a racist pitch. It’s every bit as repugnant as a white candidate making the same appeal, as many Democrats did under Jim Crow. “Vote for me because of my race.” It’s disgusting. But it’s everywhere now. Democrats applaud it. Yesterday, Former Obama spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted that Ocasio-Cortez’s faction provides, quote, “the vision and moral center of today’s Democratic party.”

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