Tucker: White Nationalism With A Side Of Plausible Denialism

Tucker Carlson has been doing the white-nationalism-with-a-side-of-plausible-denialism routine for quite a while now, built around a menu of rhetorical sleights of hand that let Fox News executives pretend he’s not really doing it. Gaslighting is his specialty, after all. At some point, someone needs to point out that his core argument, in fact, essentially identifies ordinary white conservatives with violent neofascists and terrorists. Why is he saying that, exactly?

His most recent over-the-top, wildly up-is-down gaslighting rant—in which, once again, he sneered at an African American woman standing up against white racism, just like his successful attacks on MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross—directed at Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Tuesday. Once again, he characterized Democratic attempts to confront white supremacist violence and terrorism as an attack on all white people—including, of course, ordinary mainstream conservatives. He even hijacked the term “blood libel” to apply it to the supposedly victimized whites.

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