Opinion | Both parties are to blame for the train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio – By Marisa Kabas (MSNBC) / Feb 17, 2023
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but right now the people of East Palestine should be at the heart of everyone’s concern.
On his Fox News show Monday evening, Tucker Carlson interviewed Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, about the unfolding disaster that began when a Norfolk Southern Railway train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, a small town on the border with Pennsylvania. Carlson said Democrats “talk a lot about the environment and environmental racism, but this seems like an actual environmental disaster,” adding: “And I don’t detect any urgency from the EPA or Washington at all. Is it because these are not their voters?”
Vance replied: “I think that’s a big part of it. I think that the entire country, the media complex, the leaders of this country, have decided to disregard the people of East Palestine.”
Carlson and Vance were not so subtly making the disaster the fault of Democrats, even though the facts leading up to the derailment and the subsequent fire show the responsibility isn’t so easily divided between red and blue.
