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Tucker Carlson Wants to be the Next Trump, and He Could Succeed.
The FOX Host is shaping up to be the political threat many of us saw coming.
Of all the personalities on the right attempting to navigate the political landscape in the United States in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, few have been more successful in dominating the news cycle than FOX News’ Tucker Carlson. Since the early months of 2020 many have been engaging in speculation about the television hosts’ intentions to run for office, and for good reason. It has been argued that in the midst of right wing efforts to regain control and moving further and further to the right in the process, Donald Trump was merely the trial run intended to show far more intelligent and capable wanna-be fascists how to do it, Tucker Carlson certainly being among them. Given his recent antics on his television show, it seems safe to assume that Carlson is indeed aiming for bigger things, and the left needs to prepare for what his potential run would look like.
There’s no denying Carlson has been upping the ante, trading in the familiar racial dog whistles and tropes for increasingly overtly white supremacist “great replacement” theory segments on his show, specifically intended to get his middle aged to older white male audience to once again turn to their racist fears of…
