About this episode

The episode discusses Tucker Carlson's political ambitions and the foreign influences behind them.

Weds LIVE guests: James Lindsay, Ryan Mauro, J Michael Waller Tucker Carlson has told the Columbia Journalism Review he intends to help build a third party, calling the American government "a one-party state posing as a democracy" that "needs to be broken." Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Joe Kent, and Brian Glenn have now been photographed around Carlson's table, with Greene declaring that "the movement has begun." Jeremy has been making one argument about Tucker Carlson for a long time, and it wasn't the popular one. The popular argument on the right is that Tucker is a grifter — that he says whatever the audience wants to hear because the audience pays for it. Jeremy's argument has been the opposite, and it is more troubling: Tucker isn't chasing a check. He's building something. A political project with a coherent shape — socially conservative, economically left of the Republican Party, and organized around opposition to Israel and to American power abroad. That political project isn't merely an organic movement. It's the result of hostile foreign actors who have been working, through division and chaos, to take down the West for decades. James Lindsay — mathematician…

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Boreing

Guests: James Lindsay, Ryan Mauro, J Michael Waller

Topics covered

• Tucker Carlson's political project
• foreign influence
• American politics
• social conservatism
• division and chaos
• Aleksandr Dugin

Keywords

• Tucker Carlson
• political project
• foreign actors
• social conservatism
• Aleksandr Dugin
• division
• chaos

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Columbia Journalism Review, New Discourses

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