Tucker Carlson, top media star of the ultra-right who, if he were to, would silence Donald Trump, has little or no interest in reality.
Rather, he hates it. It goes against their ideology. For years in his primetime nights on Fox, until April when they saw him as too toxic an asset even for that channel after defending the coup, Carlson devoted himself to poison the United States. He fed the alternative reality he found in conspiracy theories or the dark web, that dark world of lies and violence.
There is a part of the country that detests him and blames him for inciting national schism and for being the instigator of warmongering against the so-called woke culture.
The rest of the country reveres him and nominates him for vice president with Trump. It would be an apostle, and then a continuation, of the policy of revenge that the former president prepares if he returns to the White House against all those who qualify as antifa or communists, which includes anyone who challenges the power of white supremacists .
Trump did the staging and Carlson, a 54-year-old Californian, wrote the script for him from Fox, and now, on the social network X, formerly Twitter, where he was hosted by his friend and bad imitator Elon Musk. He has made many plays. One of the most unfortunate was to popularize the dangerous replacement theory and the demographic change of the United States directed, according to him, by the Democratic elite. At least three attackers who carried out racist killings in recent years echoed the conspiracy in the arguments of the manifestos.
The replacement has its roots, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the French nationalist writer and politician Maurice Barrès, who read Hitler. In the United States, it was updated in 1978 when the novel by William Luther Pierce was published, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, in which a race war causes the extermination of non-whites. But the most popular version in the United States is the 2011 review by the writer, also French, Renaud Camus in the book The Great Replacement: White European natives are replaced by immigrants from Africa and the Middle East. The end result will be the extinction of the white race.
The latter is the one that most excites the apocalyptic Carlson, whose “merit” consisted of turning this minority theory into mainstream “in the country of Fox”, which, we must not forget, has an arsenal in every home
Xenophobia and racism led him to interview for a few hours Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, who, suddenly, turned into an idol of the neo-fascism of the United States, so little lover of internationalism.