back ever on moral grounds. so that s it.y do him back on and will admit to feeling some sadness at this news. the prospect of cable without don lemon isn t quite as bright as we d imagined as the tide of dullness and uniformity sweeps over americawhat wn culture. as everything becomes was the apple store, there wasredice a certain joy in watching his unpredictable low iq zaniness. w let s see where a conventional news anchor working for a conventional news based news network and a malaysian air flight disappeared over the pacific.d n you would immediately thinkgr hijacking or mechanical failure ? not don lemon. onl only he had the childlike creatt creativity to imagine the plane had been swallowed imagine by ak hole.e yo in case you ve forgotten, thatot legendary moment putin wasnica hijacking or terrorism or mechanical failure or pilott error. but what if it was somethingt wa that we don t really understandn ? a lot of people have been askin asking about that, about
the rules of the hierarchy oflen the caste system and you die. nikku dii haley understands tha. don lemon doesn t. t and n and now he s heading off to dooh heading to do infomercials. but the real question is , where does this leave the rest of us ? well, at a dead end, whichof is what identity politics is , it s the ultimate national cul de sac. identity politics is the precise inversion ofea the american idea out of many one that becomes one that comes out of one many results, balkanization, atomization, racial strife, divs hatred, division and crazinessd. in the end, in the end, rwanda, no country can survive identity politics.cy we know that we have to stopw it. thbut how do we stop it?ur maybe by remembering that our nation is actually aboutg cn something bigger and by restating clearly and out loudso the principles that bind us to one another. what, in other words, doanot whe have in common? that s a realthat i question in fact, that s a question we can t avoid if we want avoid
thinking about through two books, as well as in his latestu venture, which he joins us tonight. to tell us about the big. us ab, thanks so much for coming on . thank you. so it does seem like don lemon ,just a cable host, but thisf is a perfect illustration of where identity politics wind up when you stray from universal principles that bind us al l exa under the same rules.n th exactly. i mean, we are in the middle of this national identity crisis, tucker, where we have celebrated our diversity tucker, celebrated differences and our differences for so long that we forgot all of the wayseh we re really just the samet of as americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this0 nation into motion two hundredye fifty years ago. and that s why i m proudar to say tonights ago. i am running for united states president toreviv revive those ideals in this country, those basic rules of the road meritocracy, the ideaet that you get ahead in this country, notd in t on the coloru your sk