This is the Tom Hartman program.

This is insane.

You'll recall I've been saying for some time that in my opinion, the Republican Party

has been trying to encourage people not to wear masks simply to keep the virus circulating

in America so that Joe Biden can't get the virus under control so that he can't get

the economy back so that with a bad economy and a virus still out of control, Democrats

will lose the election coming up in 2022 and will lose the White House in 2024.

But I see this as just cold political calculus.

After all these same guys were willing to kill a half a million Americans just to open

up the economy in September, October and November so that they could all try to get elected.

That backfired badly on them.

The lesson that they learned, the Republicans, was that, hey, if you're the party in power

and you've got a virus that's run out of control and an economy that's collapsing,

you're going to lose.

So now they're looking at this going, huh, the Democrats are in power.

And if we can keep this virus going and the economy collapsing, they're going to lose.

And we'll get back into power and won't that be a great thing?

But now Tucker Carlson has and Fox News have taken this a whole step farther.

This is what he had to say on Fox News.

He was talking about people who are wearing masks in public.

Now by the way, the CDC are going to be releasing their new guidelines and in all probability

they're going to say, you know, if you're fully vaccinated, you probably don't need

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