Andrew Cohen: Tucker Carlson rages, while Canada focuses on public safety

For sheer entertainment, you can’t beat Fox News on Canada. Tucker Carlson, America’s comic-in-chief, feasts on our smorgasbord of pet aversions: gun control, abortion, universal health care, silly scandals, official frugality and political correctness.

It may be that no nation on Earth is as adept as Canada at handwringing and finger-wagging. Who else so earnestly expresses regret and recrimination, often at the same time?

American conservatives have long had a field day with Justin Trudeau. But their disaffection with Canada — especially Carlson, the most popular broadcaster in the United States — swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carlson made a meal of mask mandates, school closings and vaccine requirements. He saw it as authoritarianism. Like his disingenuous support for Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud, it didn’t matter if his accusations were true, as long as they were entertaining.

Carlson recently suggested overthrowing the Canadian government. “I’ve always loved Canada, because of its natural beauty; why should we let it become Cuba? Why don’t we liberate it?” He called for another Bay of Pigs, which went badly.