Tucker Carlson has lost the plot
Thomas D. Howes
Civitas Outlook
“I have never been a fan of Tucker Carlson,” says Thomas D. Howes. There was a time, though, when I could forgive conservatives for enjoying the former Fox News star’s “brand of political entertainment”. It was McDonald’s, yes, but, as they say, “everyone has their McDonald’s”. While he may have been a loudmouth, Carlson was a “libertarian-leaning conservative who operated within a broadly conservative, classical liberal framework”. Yet over the past few years, he has moved beyond the pale by defending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and voicing increasingly extreme views. His “anti-Israel, even antisemitic insinuations” have grown louder, never more so than in his recent interview with the white nationalist activist Nick Fuentes, an avowed admirer of Hitler and…