But this time the political stakes are much higher than usual: America's future as a democracy is on the line. Franz Kafka, meet Tucker Carlson (and friends). In Buffalo, a grieving Black woman told a CNN reporter about the far deeper emotional scars the shootings left on her shattered community. Apart from a few minor setbacks, including a failed insurrection and some indictments for seditious conspiracy, it's been a bull market ever since for replacement theory and the cynical Fox News con artists who peddle it 24/7. Kafka understood this sort of cynical fear-mongering when he warned us about it a hundred years ago.

Source: Fox News May 28, 2022 16:48 UTC