Tucker Carlson has left the building.
, that “60 Minutes” segment was a concern for Rupert Murdoch, too. Apparently, the $787-million settlement in the Dominion lawsuit wasn’t a factor . But the two things are not unrelated.
Much has been written about the damage Trump has done to the right; less has been written about how the right had become so damaged as to be ripe for him to take over. An important part of that story is how the right became seduced by Saul Alinsky, the leftist radical, whose politics and tactics were once condemned by conservatives — me included.Article content
But many of my fellow conservatives became convinced the left “always wins” and they do so by using “Alinskyite tactics.” Over time, the condemnations turned to admiration, and then envy, and then, finally, emulation. Some of Alinsky’s rules for radicals include: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” and “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
But it was Carlson who took Trump’s biggest political sin — his complicity in Jan. 6 — and spun that into a tale of right-wing virtue and left-wing villainy. That was the point of “Patriot Purge,” to go beyond merely and meekly “respecting the audience” to outright pandering by declaring Trump’s most deplorable supporters were actually the right’s most righteous victims.
Carlson turned tactics — ridicule, nastiness, flipping the script — into an ideology unto itself. His departure from Fox will not make the network more acceptable to its haters and harshest critics. But Fox without Tucker means some of the worst elements on the right have lost a megaphone.Share this article in your social network
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