Tucker on Columbus Day Controversy: We’re Watching a Full-Scale Assault from Within on the West Itself

RUSH EXCERPT:
CARLSON: "But whatever, happy Columbus day anyway, enjoy it while you can. Your grandchildren won’t even know it existed. Progressives had declared war on Christopher Columbus as they have on most things older than last week. This is year zero on the revolutionary calendar. History starts now. Ignorance of the past isn’t simply tolerated, it’s required. Does your average protester know anything about Christopher Columbus? That he celebrated as a hero throughout much of Latin America for example? Of course not. The left speaks only of Columbus' genocide, mostly because his ships brought old world diseases to the new world. Of course those ships returned to Europe with syphilis and tobacco, which proves only that real history is more complicated than the childish theology your kids are no learning in school. You could make those arguments to liberals if you wanted to but save your breath, they don’t care, because none of this is really about Christopher Columbus. What we are watching is a full-scale assault from within on the west itself. Its history, its political and intellectual legacy. It’s not a debate where one side tries to convince the other. It’s a war, with one side trying to erase all remnants of its opponent. In this case, western civilization."