I started this post before the news about the stunning departure from Fox by Tucker Carlson.

The fact that he seems to have been shoved out the door, without much notice, after saying, “We’ll be back on Monday,” makes me and everyone else wonder what the heck happened. There has been speculation on the matter. We will doubtless hear more.

But what I wanted to write about is the existential problem that we face as a country with the Democrats in charge and I was using the following video from Tucker’s remarks at the Heritage Foundation 50th Anniversary to help make my point. Now with Tucker out, it perhaps puts that threat into even sharper view.

Here’s the relevant part that has gotten a lot of attention and the part I was taking off on — it isn’t about people disagreeing on the right methods for the same good outcomes.

Tucker Carlson During Speech At @Heritage Explains How To Understand What The People Wrecking Our Country Are Doing

"None of this makes sense in conventional political terms."

"When people. . .decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake, 'hey let's… pic.twitter.com/qFZOZtjAvg

— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 22, 2023

It’s that Democrats seem to want to throw order and reason under the bus and bring in chaos for their power. Carlson talks about the transgender movement — and there certainly is chaos there, with trying to throw out even the basic concept of what a man is and what a woman is. Democrats refuse to even define women now, a man with a penis can be a woman because he believes he is a woman. If you can’t even determine the basic binary of life, where are you in reality? When there is no reality, it becomes simply what the government tells you it is, ever-changing with no foundational truth.

But it’s beyond that. It’s that disorder, it’s the defund the police movement, it’s the control under COVID and the censorship of what you can hear and what you can say. It’s even surrendering our energy independence. It’s making us more helpless and reliant on our adversaries like China. It’s the Long March through all the institutions to tear down anything we knew, to replace it with what? If Joe Biden was trying to destroy this country purposely to make us subservient to adversaries like China, what would he do differently? It’s not just that we have to be concerned about his compromise with the Chinese, we’ve already seen the complete compromise with the radical left anyway — that’s who is in power now.

“None of this makes sense in conventional political terms,” Carlson said. He spoke about when the government decides that the “goal” is to destroy things, “destruction for its own sake…what you’re watching is not a political movement, it’s evil.”

Carlson said number one, “We should say that” and number two, he suggested people take ten minutes out of their day to say “a prayer for the future.” Both of those sentiments I endorse, I think I’ve been saying and doing both for a while now on the subject.

The problem is so much of the Republican Party doesn’t seem to understand this existential question — that it isn’t about compromise or debate when the purpose is that destruction. You can only win and stop all this when you understand the nature of the fight and are fully committed to defeating the evil.

Carlson got this and there are others on the right who get it as well. But if the point in the parting with Fox is to shut up what he has to say, to bury such points, they may find that they’ve walked into a hornet’s nest with this move. Already we see their stock diving and I think it’s fair to say this has infuriated their viewers. Carlson is so big he can write his ticket to go anywhere, even create a media entity, to be able to say what he wants to say. They may have struck him down, only to have him rise more powerful than before.

Here was another critical point in Carlson’s speech.

Tucker Carlson on Friday night:

"I am not a slave. I am a free citizen, and I'm not doing that, and there's nothing you can do to me to make me do it, and I hope it won't come to that, but if it does come to that, here I am. Here I am. It's Paul on trial. Here I am." pic.twitter.com/3W0VXmP0pA

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 24, 2023

There’s a battle underway, and we must win it.