Tucker: The left uses partisan politics posing as science

'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host examines how the left uses'science' to push their agenda This is a rush transcript from "Tucker Carlson Tonight," May 28, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. At some point, though it's hard to imagine now, the current revolution will end. Ultimately, all revolutions do end, they can't be sustained. And when ours does, we'll wake up one morning in a country where we don't have to lie about everything all the time, where Math is allowed, where we can acknowledge the profound and inherent differences between men and women without being fired for it. The question is, when it does come, what will be left of our society? We can't know the answer in detail. We hope that reason remains. Reason, logic, the ability to think clearly and rationally. That's the one thing we can't lose. We're going to need it to rebuild. That's why of all the moral atrocities being committed at the moment in the name of equity and inclusion, it is the relentless attacks on science that should command our special attention. So for the next hour, we're going to consider those attacks in some detail and we are going to start with America's response to the COVID pandemic. When the coronavirus first arrived in our country last winter, most Americans uncritically accepted what the authorities said about it. They thought they could trust the people in charge. Few imagined that our leaders would leverage a public health emergency for their own political gain. That seemed like the one line that even politicians wouldn't cross, and yet almost immediately, they crossed it.