Tucker Carlson and the Age of Bad Feelings - by Noah Smith

Everyone is looking for a target, and Tucker had plenty to give them.

I guess I should be happy. There’s no prominent commentator in the American media whose stated views are more anathema to my own than Tucker Carlson. He’s a strident opponent of immigration, and endorsed at least one version of the “Great Replacement” theory. He opposes dense housing development, declaring that Democrats want to “eliminate the suburbs”. He pushed antivax disinformation so strongly that his own Fox News coworkers had to step in and complain. He staunchly opposes aid to Ukraine, supporting Russian propaganda narratives so strongly that the Kremlin orders Russian news outlets…

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