distract from a day of very bad news. an effort to distract. distract. as usual, you are watching projection at work. a distraction, yes.at we are familiar with that concept.t. for two and a half years we listened to their absurd theories about russian collusion. the goal was to distract us from the implications of the 2016 election. and more broadly to keep americans from noticing what is happening to their country. the dying small towns, the needles and garbage flooding the big cities, the overrun border, the middle eastern wars that persist for no reason. the grotesque and growingo income inequality on the coast. the rise of china abroad, etin cetera. these are actual problems. some cases they are full blown crises. they need solutions and serious people to think about those solutions every day this farce about russia and coverups continues is another day that america gets weaker and more divided. after a while you begin to conclude it must be intentional, there is no
tucker: there is something it s both sides of the aisle, tucker. tucker: i don t know. i guess i don t see that. if you can find i hope you will come back if you can find a city of over 100,000 people in america run by conservatives that has the same problem with homelessness or income inequality. i just don t think there is one. maybe there is. i will stand corrected if you can find it. professor, thank you very much. thank you for having me, tucker. tucker: good to see you. alexandria ocasio-cortez just warned her fans that cauliflower is a white supremacist vegetable. don t eat it. we ll tell you what she is talking about after the break. break. just one free hearing test at
i think that actually, we are seeing gentrification around the country, in red states and blue states, in red cities and blue cities. this is just a matter of income inequality all together. the fact that the price of housing is rising much higher and much faster than wages, wages rising 3% right now. we have a strong economy. housing prices are rising 5% and have been for several years. i think this is more than just political, and i think we need to come together as americans and come to some solution. tucker: i agree with that a place controlled by conservatives has this level of income inequality. no place in wyoming for example has.
the average home costs more than 1.8 million. these are ranch style homes. these are you would want to live in one. homelessness is exploding in mountain view. hundreds of people are living out of rvs.s. the city s solution? kick them out. city council has enacted a ban on rvs parking in the city overnight. this is a story that tells you a lot about a lot.t. to respond to it, we have asked jason nichols university of maryland to join us. professor, thanks very much for coming on. thank you, tucker. thank you for having me. tucker: so, there s a paradox here, mountain view, one of the richest places in the world, also one of the, most liberal, and yet it s a city defined by income inequality. it s not alone in that. across the country the places with the greatest divide between rich and poor are almost exclusively left wing places. what do you make of that? well, i think that it goes beyond this kind of political divide that we re talking about.