I’m the product of a wildly dysfunctional family. As the oldest and most level-headed, I was the one my family members criticized - until their chaos got them into such hot water they’d come running to me to fix it. Today, they’re MAGA and I’m a liberal Democrat. I see this same dynamic now writ large in our politics. What will it take for them to come out of their cult-like thinking? It would take a reckoning with a lifetime of chaos-seeking behavior. I don’t know if society will be ready for such a reckoning for a long time.
if you can find anyone in or out of your family that listens. amazing most reaction to overwhelming success of propaganda it didnt happen or it was Biden's fault or the fault is in democratic stars
A close Jewish friend and I went to a Jewish theater play about America in the near future. “Investigators” would check people’s homes, cell phones and computers regularly. The immigrants had been deported or disappeared and now it was time to focus on the Jews.
The Jewish family was hiding their identity for fear of being taken away by the government and attacked or even killed by citizens.Teachers would call out and neighbors could report students who did not participate in Christian prayers and “grace” at lunchtime. In the end, the only hope was to cross the border into Canada.
A well-written and well-acted play….but horrifying.
i think we can assume that when in the past we saw the bedeviled as our black and brown neighbors or the always convenient devil our jewish sometimes our catholic friends now as creeping fascism works now if you are not a documented republican in trumps world we will join the bedeviled all of us i think we need to see the world up is down down is up.
This is the Republican "Big Tent"! The Party has to split. The sane wing has to split or forever be identified as bigoted racists (racist bigots?). Decide!
Why did Tucker Carlson platform Nick Fuentes? Is that even a question? Carlson has a history of platforming antisemites, like Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper, whom Carlson referred to as "the most important popular historian in the United States".
and he knows his audience and sad to say it is many of us fellow americans new thinking is required old propaganda hasnt changed just getting revealed.
the editor of the atlantic in an interview answered this question as i heard it
the right sees America as a failed democracy needing strong strict leadership, most people see America as brilliant a democratic republic that gets it right in the long run and the left as a monstrous enmity that has been a scourge upon the world both these extremes call for less freedom while the middle see our only hope is to be patriotic and not nationalistic about all the good America has created for most people until a malignant propaganda to advance causes of the unpatriotic often billionaires but not only to destroy our faith in freedom and rule of law.
"And that’s precisely why anyone in the Republican party with a shred of principle left is sounding the alarm." LOL. Please. Are we still talking about Republicans who, ten f**king YEARS into the Trump era, entertain the notion of "principle"? That cohort would fit comfortably in the back of any jacked-up Ford F350.
i think so many people believe the unpatriotic things they do is due to the lack of citizen responsibility to recognize and then demand a change, a modernization of all our institutions. who is the American of 2025 not the same as 1945.
Americans today in my opinion spend so much time demonizing each other [grand plan] that the world is marching on leaving us behind fighting over diminishing resources.
When a white nationalist gets the Tucker Carlson spa treatment, we’ve officially run out of euphemisms for fascism. Carlson didn’t “interview” Nick Fuentes; he laundered him like a bloodstain through a Fox-branded rinse cycle. Watching the right embrace Fuentes isn’t shocking anymore; it’s just grotesquely predictable, as the moral rot finally bubbles to the surface, where everyone can smell it.
What Tucker did was not journalism; it was an initiation rite. He anointed Fuentes as the new face of “patriotic dissent,” as if goose-stepping toward genocide were just another opinion in the marketplace of ideas. Meanwhile, the supposed “reasonable conservatives” are left whining about optics while their own audiences chant Sieg Heil behind the algorithmic curtain.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t “debate.” It’s the mainstreaming of Nazism under the soft glow of studio lights. Carlson knows exactly what he’s doing, weaponizing hate for clicks, feeding grievance to young men who think rage makes them righteous. The right has no immune system because hate is its circulatory system now.
If you’re still pretending this is about free speech, you’re not defending liberty, you’re defending fascism’s PR department.
Just finished today's episode of Knowledge Fight (pod that covers Alex Jones) and they did some coverage of recent interviews Nick did with other outlets besides Tucker. So much insight into Nick and the idiots who platform him, along with a lot of Nick describing his reasons for being an antisemitic piece of garbage. It all seems to go back to him being a scared college student and being jilted by a girl. No adults should be taking him seriously but we live in a world governed by toddlers.
Carlson continues to try and be relevant, no matter how. He is as pathetic as he has always been. Hanging with a sick promoting bottom feeder only makes him more pathetic. Thanks Will for crawling through a sewer to keep us informed.
thanks will
I’m the product of a wildly dysfunctional family. As the oldest and most level-headed, I was the one my family members criticized - until their chaos got them into such hot water they’d come running to me to fix it. Today, they’re MAGA and I’m a liberal Democrat. I see this same dynamic now writ large in our politics. What will it take for them to come out of their cult-like thinking? It would take a reckoning with a lifetime of chaos-seeking behavior. I don’t know if society will be ready for such a reckoning for a long time.
if you can find anyone in or out of your family that listens. amazing most reaction to overwhelming success of propaganda it didnt happen or it was Biden's fault or the fault is in democratic stars
A close Jewish friend and I went to a Jewish theater play about America in the near future. “Investigators” would check people’s homes, cell phones and computers regularly. The immigrants had been deported or disappeared and now it was time to focus on the Jews.
The Jewish family was hiding their identity for fear of being taken away by the government and attacked or even killed by citizens.Teachers would call out and neighbors could report students who did not participate in Christian prayers and “grace” at lunchtime. In the end, the only hope was to cross the border into Canada.
A well-written and well-acted play….but horrifying.
i think we can assume that when in the past we saw the bedeviled as our black and brown neighbors or the always convenient devil our jewish sometimes our catholic friends now as creeping fascism works now if you are not a documented republican in trumps world we will join the bedeviled all of us i think we need to see the world up is down down is up.
Tucker reminds me of a toddler demanding attention whether positive or negative.
"Anyone in the Republican party with a shred of principle left is sounding the alarm".
And they all meet in a phone booth to strategize. (I stole that dis from Roger Ailes 😺)
Will appears to be framing the "more respectable right wing media" to include Tucker before he platformed Fuentes and Dinesh "2000 Mules" D'Sousa....
...words fail me.
dave we can fill in the cracks
I’m starting to think we aren’t very far away from Heritage changing their mind and deciding that no maybe it is all the Jews fault for everything.
False Flag rules
This is the Republican "Big Tent"! The Party has to split. The sane wing has to split or forever be identified as bigoted racists (racist bigots?). Decide!
Great post Will and really
enjoyed the comments.
So many said it for me.
This is scary. I'm glad for the information.
Why did Tucker Carlson platform Nick Fuentes? Is that even a question? Carlson has a history of platforming antisemites, like Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper, whom Carlson referred to as "the most important popular historian in the United States".
Nick Fuentes is right up Carlson's back alley.
and he knows his audience and sad to say it is many of us fellow americans new thinking is required old propaganda hasnt changed just getting revealed.
Please tell me where there is any equivalent to this on the left? It’s
cartoonish.
the editor of the atlantic in an interview answered this question as i heard it
the right sees America as a failed democracy needing strong strict leadership, most people see America as brilliant a democratic republic that gets it right in the long run and the left as a monstrous enmity that has been a scourge upon the world both these extremes call for less freedom while the middle see our only hope is to be patriotic and not nationalistic about all the good America has created for most people until a malignant propaganda to advance causes of the unpatriotic often billionaires but not only to destroy our faith in freedom and rule of law.
"And that’s precisely why anyone in the Republican party with a shred of principle left is sounding the alarm." LOL. Please. Are we still talking about Republicans who, ten f**king YEARS into the Trump era, entertain the notion of "principle"? That cohort would fit comfortably in the back of any jacked-up Ford F350.
i think so many people believe the unpatriotic things they do is due to the lack of citizen responsibility to recognize and then demand a change, a modernization of all our institutions. who is the American of 2025 not the same as 1945.
Americans today in my opinion spend so much time demonizing each other [grand plan] that the world is marching on leaving us behind fighting over diminishing resources.
When a white nationalist gets the Tucker Carlson spa treatment, we’ve officially run out of euphemisms for fascism. Carlson didn’t “interview” Nick Fuentes; he laundered him like a bloodstain through a Fox-branded rinse cycle. Watching the right embrace Fuentes isn’t shocking anymore; it’s just grotesquely predictable, as the moral rot finally bubbles to the surface, where everyone can smell it.
What Tucker did was not journalism; it was an initiation rite. He anointed Fuentes as the new face of “patriotic dissent,” as if goose-stepping toward genocide were just another opinion in the marketplace of ideas. Meanwhile, the supposed “reasonable conservatives” are left whining about optics while their own audiences chant Sieg Heil behind the algorithmic curtain.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t “debate.” It’s the mainstreaming of Nazism under the soft glow of studio lights. Carlson knows exactly what he’s doing, weaponizing hate for clicks, feeding grievance to young men who think rage makes them righteous. The right has no immune system because hate is its circulatory system now.
If you’re still pretending this is about free speech, you’re not defending liberty, you’re defending fascism’s PR department.
New word for 2025 -- " nazi laundering ". The laundering has continued last several years and the Carlson " interview " is the most egregious example.
Spot on.
Just finished today's episode of Knowledge Fight (pod that covers Alex Jones) and they did some coverage of recent interviews Nick did with other outlets besides Tucker. So much insight into Nick and the idiots who platform him, along with a lot of Nick describing his reasons for being an antisemitic piece of garbage. It all seems to go back to him being a scared college student and being jilted by a girl. No adults should be taking him seriously but we live in a world governed by toddlers.
and the demonizing out in full force
Carlson continues to try and be relevant, no matter how. He is as pathetic as he has always been. Hanging with a sick promoting bottom feeder only makes him more pathetic. Thanks Will for crawling through a sewer to keep us informed.
how do you join the conversation that exposes these horrors that have captured so many of our fellow americans??