It's a strategy that we've seen play out in the 1960s and 1970s, when White, right-wing media personalities and publications supported racist policies abroad, writes historian Nicole Hemmer (PastPunditry) for CNNOpinion.
Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of"Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics." She co-hosts the history podcasts"Past Present" and"This Day in Esoteric Political History" and is co-producer of the new podcast"Welcome To Your Fantasy." The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author.
When Tucker Carlson, host of the highest-rated show on Fox News, opened his show on Monday, he appeared not behind his glossy desk, but in front of the ornate spires of Budapest, Hungary. Standing near the banks of the Danube, he explained why he was suddenly 4,000 miles from his studio.
Nicole HemmerIt was a line that could easily have been written by Hungary's authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whom Carlson met with that day. Orbán, who came to power in 2010 and quickly began to dismantle the framework of democracy in the country, has argued that he has been saving Hungary by turning it into an"illiberal democracy" .
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