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It's Tuesday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Dately Briefing.

Good evening. Welcome to Tucker Carlson. It's unhappy Monday. It might be time to do a

wellness check on Fox News host Tucker Carlson because it looks like he's

finally found the line. Twitter is exploding this morning with the hashtag Tucker must go trending

and heat coming in from the Lincoln Project and Democrats like Representative Ted Liu of

California. The backlash is all because of Carlson's opening monologue from last night,

which roughly translates into burn all the masks. This was the starting point of his mask

discrack. Instead, masks are purely a sign of political obedience like Kim Il-sung pins in Pyongyang.

We wear them because we have to.

The only people who wear masks voluntarily outside

are zealots and neurotics.

Guilty as charged.

Next came the claim that mask wearers are mentally ill.

Then a quick pitch to quote,

restore the society we were born in,

your run-of-the-mill bark that masks are, quote, repulsive.

And soon, there was nowhere else to go but to take it here.

Your response when you see children wearing masks as they play should be no different from your

response to seeing someone beat a kid in Walmart.

Call the police immediately.

Contact child protective services.

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