Jon Chait does a nice job summarizing the unique - though not unprecedented - evil that Tucker Carlson represents. I remember when Carlson came to our campus when his kids were looking to enroll here. It was clear that he was simply playing a part of the angry populist, as he yukked it up with our resident British Labour Party Christian Socialist.
However, a few years later, conservative students - rightly - complained about the lack of ideological diversity among our outside speakers and we tried to get Carlson to speak on campus as a "reasonable conservative." This was prior to 2016, but the decision never came together. Before it could, Carlson degenerated into the racist swamp thing that Trump enabled to crawl out into the light.
Carlson is - in so many - a perfect avatar of the modern GOP. He's a wealthy scion, a prep schooled bow-tied nebbish pretending to be a Populist. But the line between fake racist and real racist is effectively non existent.
Fuck that guy.
UPDATE: Josh Marshall thinks 92 year old Rupert Murdoch might be losing his shit.
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