Tucker Carlson’s allies on the right wish to exculpate him of any blame for the violence committed by his adherents. jonathanchait writes that the white nationalist’s conservative allies are mounting an unconvincing defense
It has become a grotesque ritual in American life that whenever a white nationalist kills enough people to briefly seize the attention of the national media, conservatives will quickly focus on defending the most prominent white-nationalist voice in America: Tucker Carlson.
But the banal notion that immigration has political implications is not the issue. Great-replacement theory distinguishes itself from commonplace observations of political demography in two ways. It casts the phenomenon as a sinister elite conspiracy often directed by Jews.
“But why? To change the racial mix of the country. That’s the reason. To reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the Third World … This is the language of eugenics. It’s horrifying. But there’s a reason Biden said that. In political terms, this policy is called the ‘great replacement’ — the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from faraway countries.
Carlson is not naming the Jews, but there is a paper-thin difference between blaming a Jewish financier who is the object of anti-Semitic obsession as the orchestrator of a global plot and naming the Jewish people. Yes, many right-wingers express contempt for conservatism — and even for Fox News. Donald Trump has done both. The idea that mainstream conservatism is weak is a mainstay of rhetoric used by other Republicans engaged in factional struggle for control of the GOP. This divide has spilled over to Fox News itself, whose hosts have attacked one another implicitly and sometimes explicitly.
Except Gendron’s argument at times echoes some of Carlson’s rhetoric almost word for word. Here, one of Carlson’s favorite riffs:
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