People are struggling to pay basic things like medical bills.

'Why are 23-year-old kids dying of fentanyl overdoes?' he asked. Most Americans never fully recovered except for the extremely rich, who now are wealthier than ever. He said the end of the middle class began in earnest after the Great Recession a decade ago. Related: Oprah to turn Florida woman's book 'Love Warrior' into a movie 'I’m very frustrated by the dumbness of it all.” “What I do is try to describe what is happening and my frustration in watching the news coverage,' Carlson said.

What’s going on is a small group of people is getting richer than anyone else has in human history and everyone else is languishing.'Īnd unless America corrects its course, he added, “Trump is just the beginning.” 'The economy doesn't work for most people. “If I could sum it up, I would say that almost all of our political volatility stems from economic causes,' Carlson said. And student loan debt continues to skyrocket. Parents nowadays continue to provide money for their children after they move out and graduate from college. 'Democracies don't work except in middle-class countries,' he writes.Ĭarlson pointed out how there's something wrong when people with household incomes of $80,000 annually cannot afford to send their children to summer camp. in 2015 and few cared or acknowledged it. In the book, Carlson delves into the middle class and how he says it died in the U.S. ‘The economy doesn't work for most people’ Those inside the ship are the Clintons, Democrats Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, neoconservative Bill Kristol and Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos. The cover features a caricature of Carlson's 'fools' in a ship about to head over a waterfall. Those who think the book will bash only Bill and Hillary Clinton and other Democrats will be disappointed, as it takes aim at both sides of the aisle, Carlson noted. There has to be something profound going on for that to happen.' 'Satisfied countries aren't going to vote Donald Trump into the White House. More: Lawrence O'Donnell's new book shows how Roger Ailes helped get Nixon elected in 1968 'The premise of the book is really simple: Why did Trump get elected?' Carlson said Monday in a telephone interview.

The Fox News political commentator's new book, 'Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution,' published Tuesday and is likely headed to the New York Times best-seller list based on early sales at Tucker Carlson says he traveled the country covering the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and found enough material to write a book.

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