Left-wing author Naomi Wolf sounds alarm to Tucker Carlson: America becoming 'totalitarian state before everyone's eyes'



As Fox News host Tucker Carlson told left-wing author Naomi Wolf on his program Monday night, there isn't a whole lot they likely agree on — but Wolf's alarming observation that America is turning into a "totalitarian state before everyone's eyes" amid our government's coronavirus lockdowns is certainly an exception.

What's the background?

Just days after last November's presidential election, Wolf famously tweeted that had she known that now-President Joe Biden was open to "terrifying" lockdowns that "won't ever end because elites love it," she never would've voted for the Democrat:

If I’d known Biden was open to ‘lockdowns’ as he now states, which is something historically unprecedented in any p… https://t.co/nqjSqGvGWv
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But Wolf told Carlson that she's been writing about governmental overreach for a long time, and in fact penned a 2007 book on the subject — "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" — that can apply to the "terrible crisis that we're in" right now.

What else did she say?

Wolf, an adviser for former President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, said America is quickly "moving into a coup situation, a police state situation" as elected officials continue to assume "unprecedented" emergency powers under the "guise of a real medical pandemic."

"That's not a partisan thing; that transcends everything that you and I might disagree or agree on," she told Carlson. "That should bring together left and right to protect our Constitution."

Wolf observed that the "state has now crushed businesses, kept us from gathering in free assembly to worship as the First Amendment provides, is invading our bodies ... which is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, restricting movement." She noted that she can be fined $15,000 a day in New York state for gathering more people in one space than COVID-19 restrictions allow.

Noting that her historical studies have shown her that "would-be tyrants always take" the same 10 steps "when they want to close down a democracy," Wolf told Carlson she believes the United States is "absolutely moving into what I call step 10," which is the "suspension of the rule of law — that's when you start to be a police state, and we're here. There's no way around it."

Wolf added that she's interviewed "many patriots from all backgrounds and all walks of life who are horrified" by this dangerous shift, but the deep divisions in our country make it difficult to stand united against the march toward greater governmental control.

She added that she's seeing "autocratic tyrants at the state and now the national level ... creating a kind of merger of corporate power and government power, which is really characteristic of Italian fascism in the '20s" — and that they're "using that to engage in emergency orders that simply strip us of our rights: rights to property, rights to assembly, rights to worship, and all of the rights that our Constitution guarantees."

'No one gives up emergency powers willingly'

Wolf also offered some sobering predictions, noting that her studies have shown that "no one gives up emergency powers willingly" and that they "always drag it on and drag it on." She also said that "nowhere in the Constitution does it say" that our rights "can be suspended if there's a bad disease. We have lived through typhus, cholera, small pox, HIV, tuberculosis, polio, the Spanish Flu ... we've lived through an attack on our soil. Never have there been months and months and months of emergency powers when we weren't actually fighting a war."

She sounded the alarm concerning the "completely unprecedented" response to COVID-19, saying that "lockdowns have never been done before in free societies, and really, we're turning into a version of a totalitarian state before everyone's eyes."

"I really hope we wake up quickly," Wolf concluded, "because history also shows that it's a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back."

Carlson wondered, too, if the powers that be want to keep Americans "divided so we won't have conversations like this."

Horowitz: With no mask mandate and schools open, Florida ranks 11th lowest in excess deaths among seniors



There's a reason why the Biden regime is trying to attack Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and create an illusion of a disproportionate viral crisis in the state. With no declared emergency restrictions in place at the state level since last September, the fact that Florida is doing better than the national average completely exposes the lie of lockdown and masks having any effect whatsoever on the fixed natural progression of the virus.

Dr. Fauci is suggesting a novel scientific principle – that schools can't reopen until Congress passes yet another "stimulus" bill. Yet in Florida, schools have been open all year, and the state's excess deaths for 2020 rank the 16th lowest in the nation, according to a new analysis. What's more, the Sunshine State, which is regarded as God's waiting room for seniors, experienced the 11th lowest per capita rate of excess death increase for seniors in 2020.

A new analysis conducted by RationalGround.com and exclusively obtained by TheBlaze collated CDC excess death data for 49 states (excluding North Carolina, which has incomplete data) and ranked the states from smallest to largest increase in excess deaths from 2019 to 2020. As we have seen in study after study, there is absolutely zero correlation between non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as business and school closures or mask mandates, and a lower rate of excess deaths.

According to the CDC's excess death table, there was a 16.9% national average increase in all-cause mortality in 2020 over 2019. Given the loose way we count COVID deaths, it will take quite some time to sort out how many of those deaths are due to COVID and how many are due to the panic, anxiety, lockdowns, and missed care, but what is clear is that there is no correlation between the political measures taken by a state and fewer all-cause deaths.

Florida, which is the third largest state, has the 16th lowest increase in all-cause deaths, and all of the states that had fewer excess deaths than Florida are much smaller and are mostly states with lower population density. California, on the other hand, ranked No. 40.


What is most striking is that if you rank the number of COVID-19 deaths among seniors by state per 100,000, Florida ranks the 11th lowest in the nation! Florida suffered 474 COVID deaths per 100,000, while California suffered 573 per 100,000. Florida beat even some smaller lockdown states as well:

Remember, California did everything "right." The state implemented the most severe and earliest lockdowns and mask mandates. Just 5% of school children have returned to school. In contrast, Florida has had no statewide restrictions for months, and nearly all children were back in school in September. What's more, Florida has become the top destination both for people permanently moving and also vacationing during the great winter spread of the virus. According to those who believe human input is what determines the trajectory of the virus, Florida, especially with its senior population, should have been toward the bottom, with much higher all-cause mortality.

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Yes, some of the lowest all-cause mortality states are blue states, such as Hawaii and Vermont. But so are red states, such as West Virginia and Alaska. Generally, the states with lower population density and those most isolated had fewer deaths. Hawaii is the most isolated state of all. Florida, being the third most populous state, beat numbers 4-12 with a lower percentage increase in excess deaths among seniors. Also, with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, Hawaii will be dealing with excess deaths of misery for years to come.

The Rational Ground analysis used CDC excess death data (predicted/weighted for 2019 and provisional for 2020) to rank the states by all-cause mortality increases and used the CDC's provisional COVID-19 deaths by sex, age, and state to rank the per-capita COVID-19 deaths by state for the senior population. If anything, as California's numbers continue to be updated, they will get worse because most of their deaths were at the end of the year.

When the lockdowns and school closures began last March, the totalitarians predicted the nightmare scenario of children killing their grandparents, despite the existing evidence that children did not contribute much to community spread. Well, this chart created by Rational Ground contributor Kyle Lamb, comparing Florida to other states in terms of school reopenings, is worth 1,000 words.

This chart uses Burbio's school opening tracker, which tabulates the percentage of public school students in all the school districts in each state that have in-person instruction available to them. As you can see, nearly 100% of Florida students have access to in-person instruction, per the governor's order early last year. Yet the state has fewer pediatric cases per 100,000 total since the beginning of the pandemic than other states with very few children in school, including California, where just 5.4% of public-school students have access to in-person classes.

Let's not forget that states like California and Illinois will be suffering from excess deaths for years to come as a result of these illogical and inhumane decisions. The University of California published a study in JAMA estimating a cumulative loss of 5.53 million life years from this generation of children due to lost educational attainment.

Thus, there is literally zero benefit to shutting schools, shutting businesses, or wearing masks. It is all pain and zero gain. California has nothing to show for its year-long lockdown but more deaths per capita and 30% higher unemployment than Florida, as well as all the long-term excess deaths induced by hopelessness that we will tragically be counting for years to come. As for Florida, it doesn't need a stimulus to reopen schools; opening schools and society is the stimulus.