Tucker Carlson

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  5/20/2022
  

  Is the Left Involved in its Own "Great Replacement"?

  by Cathy Young

  No – while the Democrats have been publicly (and perhaps unjustifiably) confident that demographic change favors their electoral interests, the right is bringing a racist conspiracy theory from the fringes to the mainstream.

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/20/2022
  

  Tucker Carlson Heralds Yet Another "Crisis of Masculinity"

  by Mona Charen

  Tucker Carlson's recent examination of testicular tanning as a boost to manliness shows the need for societies to support pathways to male expression that don't lead to violence or painful sunburns. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  10/25/2021
  

  John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts

  Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/5/2021
  

  Why Tucker Carlson went to Hungary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Tucker Carlson's PR visit to Orban's Hungary echoes the tribute paid by leaders of the American right to racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s, and reflect the ongoing fantasy of the right to rule free of constraints of law and democratic norms. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  8/2/2021
  

  Letters from an American: The Rising Appeal of Hungary on the US Right

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Tucker Carlson's fawning visit to Viktor Orban's Hungary, at a time when the right is mobilizing to subvert future American elections, is an ominous signal of the growing contempt for democracy on the right. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/14/2021
  

  How Tucker Carlson Became the Voice of White Grievance

  "What emerges is a portrait of an ambitious television personality who came of age in privilege — having grown up in an upper-class enclave and attended private schools — but who, by his own telling, is a victim."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/17/2021
  

  Tucker Carlson’s Cries about Immigrants

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Before Tucker Carlson, Samuel Morse was the nation's leading anti-immigrant troll. And, like Carlson, he attributed evils to Catholic immigrant voters that simply reflected the day's political culture, shared by native-born and immigrant Americans. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/20/2021
  

  The Derek Chauvin Verdict Won’t Stop Cops Murdering Black People. We Still Aren’t Safe

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Historical reflection shows that Derek Chauvin's killing of George Floyd was not an anomaly. His conviction won't purge policing of racial bias. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/12/2020
  

  Me, Tucker Carlson and the Danger to Democracy Posed by False Allegations

  by Danielle Allen

  A Harvard political theorist takes the Fox News host to task for allowing his conservative guest to make inflammatory and unfounded statements about her in-class speech, which led to her receiving death threats.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/19
  

  Tucker Carlson Attacks Dutch Historian and Defends His Words on Show

  Fox News host Tucker Carlson responded Wednesday to a now-viral video of an unaired interview in which he swore at a guest, calling him a “moron” and a “tiny brain."

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  Are Puerto Ricans White?

  by Jonathan Harrison

  That’s what Tucker Carlson claimed when defending Trump from charges he neglected the island because he’s racist. Here’s the backstory.