Tucker's New Buddy
Tucker, Nick and Adolf: what do they all have in common?
Tucker Carlson’s cordial interview with Nick Fuentes tells us everything we need to know about the direction the Republican Party is headed. Nick is a White nationalist, misogynist, and hardcore antisemite who thinks Hitler is cool and the Holocaust didn’t happen.
Tucker’s interview was like slow-pitch softball for seniors — no one was going to get hurt; in fact, Tucker walked Nick from first base to home plate, giving him a huge amount of exposure — 6.4M views on YouTube alone. And at the end of the interview, Tucker awarded Nick the game ball, and they took a few selfies.
Then, rather than chastising Carlson for hosting this monstrous guest and treating him as if he were a decent person, Trump defended Carlson, as did Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation — two GOP leaders who clearly embrace Fuentes’ Nazi worldview since they refuse to speak out against him. Conveniently, Fuentes supports everything that Trump and the folks behind Project 2025 aspire to, though his schtick is to pretend the GOP is not taking things far enough, that they need to be more extreme and aggressive. My guess: Fuentes’ agenda is the real GOP agenda, the one that never gets said out loud. At least, not yet.
And you won’t believe this — Ted Cruz actually said something intelligent in response to the Carlson interview: “Now is a time for choosing. Now is a time for courage … If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool and their mission is to combat and defeat ‘global Jewry’, and you say nothing, then you are a coward, and you are complicit in that evil.” Yeah, we’ll see what Ted says when he’s up for reelection.
This guy, Fuentes, may cause a rift in the GOP for a hot minute, but you know the routine. In the blink of an eye, the Grand Old White Men’s Party (which only admits geldings) will have embraced Nick exactly as they did Charlie Kirk. They will find a way to spin what he’s saying and turn him into a cultural hero, without appearing to agree with his most offensive statements. You know — let the young firebrand express what the old guys really feel, deep down. It’s like they’re getting their rocks off watching someone else have sex with their wife when they can’t get it up.
Read The New Yorker’s take on this, “Nick Fuentes Is Not Just Another Alt-Right Boogeyman: the rise of the white-nationalist streamer should worry us even more than it already does,” and The Guardian’s take, “Tucker Carlson’s interview with far-right antisemite Nick Fuentes divides conservatives.”
You’ll want to see the interview for yourself. Pour yourself some bourbon and keep the bottle nearby. You’re gonna need it.
And here’s to Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is apparently resigning from Congress. She was just starting to become a decent human being. I think.
Holy shit. What a day.