For over half a decade, Tucker Carlson was the most influential voice in right-wing media, without a close second. “Donald Trump had the raw power, but Carlson set the ideological agenda,” andrewmarantz writes.
? Once, on the radio, he referred to Iraqis as “semiliterate, primitive monkeys.” No matter how many racist things he said, his bosses and advertisers and fellow-travellers could keep denying that he was a racist, because he said so.
“Retrain your mind to acknowledge the things that are right in front of you, that are obvious,” Carlson said, in 2019. This was not a voice-over in an attention-grabbing documentary but a keynote speech at a conservative conference; he was, presumably, saying what he really believed. “There are many downsides, I will say, to Trump, but one of the upsides is that the Trump election was so shocking, so unlikely . . .
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