How Tucker Carlson Grew to become the Prophet of MAGA
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Tucker Carlson has lengthy been a standard-bearer for far-right views, such because the racist conspiracy idea often known as the “nice alternative.” He lately did a chatty interview with the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, an admirer of Hitler. And but, Carlson began out as a revered, well-connected, albeit contrarian, political journalist. Jason Zengerle, who lately joined The New Yorker as a employees author, talks with David Remnick about his new guide, “Hated by All of the Proper Individuals: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Thoughts.” They hint how Carlson’s sense of private resentment towards the institution grew; how launching his personal web site radicalized his politics within the years earlier than MAGA; and his political ambitions as a possible inheritor to Donald Trump. “I feel, if Tucker Carlson concludes that J. D. Vance can’t get elected President, perhaps he has to do it himself,” Zengerle says. “A lot of politics now could be simply being a media determine and being an entertainer. And Tucker does these issues very properly. . . . I feel our politics are at a spot the place that actually doesn’t appear as outrageous as it could have even only a couple years in the past.”
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