Known for schooling uninformed liberals in TV debates, Carlson transfers that same primetime entertainment to the pages of Ship of Fools. Page after page, he eloquently exposes the hypocrisies of the Washington elite while providing a balanced history lesson in which he analyzes the current state of our nation, how we got to where we are, and where we go from here.
Many in the media claim to speak truth to power, yet they cower and look the other way when it comes to holding the super-elite accountable. To Tucker, truth and facts outweigh the prestige and position that anyone holds. Whether it’s Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, or the Clintons, he does not shy away from presenting the untethered accuracy of actual events.
Ship of Fools explains to readers what most of us who’ve worked in Washington already know: Many of the leaders who run our country don’t value the electorate ‐ you, the voter. "Countries can survive war and famines and disease. They cannot survive leaders who despise their own people," he writes. Donald Trump was elected president because he was an unconventional "politician" who actually listened to what the voters were saying and campaigned on it. As Tucker points out, Trump’s election "was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class."
In a pithy and hilarious manner, he pokes holes in the arguments of the Left’s clandestine agenda. Calling them out for being the party of the rich, who have turned a blind eye to several humanitarian issues that would have undoubtedly mobilized them in the past. Issues such as oppressive workforce conditions, harmful social media addictions, a drop in the life expectancy of "native-born" Americans, an increase in war-hungry Democrats, and the list goes on. He rightly turns the tables on liberals who have attempted to continually point fingers at the Right in order to distract from these hypocrisies.