Some aspects are dated and more appropriate to the Fall of 2025, yet the point and conclusion of this piece are becoming increasingly relevant, especially as its central prediction begins to write itself out. A war in Iran! This only accelerates these claims. Tucker Carlson deserves significant credit for being forthright in his critique of Israeli-influence in the United States, yet if he doesn’t adopt a logically robust approach, the cracks within his personage will rupture.
Tucker Carlson is running for President in 2028.
Does he even know? Of course he does. He is calibrated for it, inside of that confused identity.
It’s years, possibly decades in the making. Don’t kid yourself, behind that trademark laugh and folksy visage is someone a lot more like Frank Underwood than your Thanksgiving uncle. What? No way. He can’t be. This is the goofball who talks about UFOs and spends half his time reading nicotine adverts. It’s not like the millions of Americans who lap that content up are a significant demographic, let alone had elected the current President. Didn’t you know that he has dogs! Only inhuman “fascist(s)” like Ron Desantis don’t. That guy hates dogs. This guy, he just wants to fly fish… with Dick Cheney.
What if someone knew the absolute cover that such a disarming nature gave them? The manipulative power that such could wield in an age, that for most, is becoming ever more confused. It’s not that its faked, but that it is weaponized.
Let’s consider that time when America’s uncle was the only Western journalist given a two-hour chit chat with the triple decade Premier of the Russian Federation? I do. I found this moment quite nice:
TUCK: With the backing of whom?
PUTIN: With the backing of CIA, of course! The organization you wanted to join back in the day as I understand…
TUCK: “...”
PUTIN: We should thank God they didn’t let you in *piercing laughter* although it is a serious organization. I understand.1
Do you put the word the in front of God?
Being cute 24/7 apparently isn’t a serious enterprise according to the embodied ghost of the KGB. But hey, it’s not like someone of that profession knows what ‘serious’ means anyways, don’t sweat it. Did Trump stay quarantined in entertainment when Obama made a whole ball laugh at him? When Zuckerberg was blown off at parties by women and ‘people’, he decided to appropriate their whole existence. Whether this was his handler humiliating him with doublespeak or his idol shoving his face in the sand, the result is the same. You think this guy is all laughs and smiles?
The comfy Boomer. Deception is the greatest stratagem. Deep down is a hungry little tactician, in him just as in all of us. For what lesson did Trump teach us? That this country is a joke. So you think it’s the ‘serious people who are going to ascend to the top? A mixture of idiots and the shrewd push out the lovers of normality. Crazy is the new normal in times of exception, so get used to it and recognize that is the defining condition for political prediction in our time. If a reality tv show host is now Presidential, surely too is a political pundit.
Curious instant gestures at 1:06:18, upon being asked about JD Vance being the next President. Could be nervous about controversy hitting Vance, but the defensive posture and hand is more than bizarre.
MEGYN KELLY: JD Vance. Is he 48?
A “NOT STRATEGIC” THINKER: *Nervous laugh* I’m not an adviser to JD Vance by the way, I’m a podcaster just to be clear. Umm I’m the least svengali like person you’ve ever met, like I can’t plan a birthday dinner, I’m not strategic in my thinking. I’m the last person you would go to like what do we do? I don’t know! So *laughter* - its true. And so I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow, so like no one asks me for my strategic advice ever, and no one should, including JD. So I have no role in that.2 *Proceeds to say he is a good Vice President and defends him from being attacked by association with himself*
MEGYN KELLY: Is there anyone else who could do it? Besides JD?
A “NOT STRATEGIC” THINKER: You know I don’t, I don’t really know… There’s a huge scramble to define what the Republican Party is after Trump… *shuffles away from the question and proceeds to define what MAGA is*
Now let’s say, hypothetically, you want to be the Presidential successor to this absolute shitshow. Good news for you, it being such makes it quite opportune for the unexpected to swoop in. A dark horse maybe? One who just so happens to be correctly tuned to appeal to a public at large sick of bombastic narcissists - especially ones that aren’t cool like the current one. Standard politicians of default skin don’t work anymore - the Democrats are going to do that one, we’ve gotta press against that and not emulate it. Unless they run AOC, in which case this entire analysis will have to be adjusted. Hmmmm. If only there was an anti-Trump. Someone who is an exact inverse of the man’s temperament, character and qualities. As any inverse of course, this someone will still be just as much of an act - une même forme ; a man of many laughs.
Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
In this ocean of mystery, who are the prospective fish?
Well Ron Desantis is talking about how Somalis are uncivilized savages which is a direct challenge to being the GOPs chief dog-whistler. The current incumbent of that job laughs at his cackle. Ronnie, you poor guy. That dinner revealed your cards to the master! Unreal recognizes unreal and you will be outplayed. It’s ok, maybe he’ll give you VP, or secretary of something, but you’ll have to lick the scraps with the hounds. A naval man himself, he’d prefer the golden days of doctrine; that ‘normal world’ where you simply ascend after decades of feckless toil. Get your trophy wife, become governor and check all the boxes only to get the Presidency stolen from you by a comms fuck up. Elon Musk seems really good at screwing with people, just as much as he is at creating them. Which begs the question - isn’t there a far-right Fox expat that he’s really cozy with? Anyways, like a fine first-rate battleship, pristine and shiny, Desantis will be sunk from below by a silent running Poseidon. Blown out of the water before he ever acquires the target.
So what about Jay Deee!, the guy we’re all supposed to think is going to be Trump’s successor. To this it can only be said: Really? With that face? We do live in stupid world but even here we keep the Big Chair from those with extra chromosomes. He would make a very funny coffee mug.
“But he held the casket at Kirk’s memorial!”
And who gave the most impassioned speech?
“But he’s the Vice President!”
And who made the call to put him there?
When SSBN’s are making their final attack run, its standard operating procedure to drop decoys. Juris Doctorate Vance? Come on. Too easy. On the outside all of us dupes break off and chase that louder noise, while inside the TK-16 Карлсон you hear a faint celebratory “uuraah!” It’s the mark of a seasoned captain to be an unknown unknown - better yet right in plain sight! - because when you suddenly appear on everyone’s radar, it’s too late. If I were to guess Rummy taught him that one, with Dick, fishing.
Ah but some are starting to notice. The coast guard has been activated a distant 15 nautical miles off shore of the Washington metropolitan area. Who will save the day? A washed out careerist, who never made it into the admiralty - the Boss didn’t exactly like it when he told all the cadets to vote their conscience. Ted Cruz notices a shimmy in the waves and sounds the alarm. “RED ALERT! RED ALERT! A jaded WASP is coming in for the kill!” The Shapiro’s, the Weiss’ the Levins’ all scramble in their Phantoms like it’s an unfestive Yom Kippur. They fail miserably, although some do successfully sink a few million tons of US flag waving freight. The cruise missiles launch, a single Cruz faints. It’s not 2003 anymore Teddy, all your friends have fled. Although we’d love to see ‘CRUZ/CHRISTIE 2028’ so we can print T-Shirts that say ‘Only ONE MAN can save the United Satellites of Israel once and for all!’ - it’s a joke even they will struggle to get behind.
Rubio is probably the most dangerous case, but he’ll struggle in the populist age. Nevertheless, he is the only intelligent person holding the Administration’s baton. Politically speaking though, no one else is positioned like Tucker Carlson, and if he doesn’t see that maybe he really is an idiot. But I doubt it. That’s his character, not him.
The water is still, the waves now absent.
Did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson or was it the other way around? They got the Dominion lawsuit and he got their audience under 70. Now securing a hard bargain like that may show why even Trump likes him. Michael Burry if you can hear me, devise an instrument that can short just the news portion of FoxCorp, their market-base will physically extinguish in about ten years, give or take. Now, why didn’t Carlson join Newsmax? He surely could have dominated there too? Curiously he didn’t try to build a broadcasting network with those like Charlie Kirk or Megyn Kelly, nor Glenn Greenwald, Dave Smith, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon and so on. There is no network big enough for this man now, it’s not just a preference for sitting in front of a digital stream. As for those others? Why limit your brand to them when they already orbit you? No need. The aim, clearly, since the departure from Fox has been to build the most dominant single-person centered pundit brand - and he succeeded.
No one else gets ratings like him, well except for one person, but not in the mainstream yet. Of the ‘old guard’ pundit class he is king. He and his staff have very aptly developed their content to appeal to all the right people, and repulse all the wrong ones. Promoting conspiratorial narratives, rigid American isolationism and a generic xenophobia have all proven profitable for this endeavor because White Americans en masse are flocking to these things, among other things. Establishment conservatism and Zionism, not big winners on the ticket for the 2020s.
He has a mothership media operation positioned both in network and ideological terms right at the center of the mainstream American Right. He not only knows everyone big but is able to reach everyone little across the country. No one else is in that position and he knows that. Maybe he is just a goofball that is constantly learning, but if he is not to any degree at all, he and his team are going to strike HARD in 2027. Pay careful attention to how he speaks of Trump. It’s just a little too innocent.
MEGYN KELLY: What letter grade would you give Trump right now?
UNASSUMING CUTSIE GIRL DAD: Umm well as always I’d just give him like huge style points *hehehe* he’s just (unable to control laughing) hilarious! He’s just unbelievable! And he never gets credit for it, you know. People always say Trump is always seeking credit for everything but in my view… - from here it just turns into a ramble about glazing (1:01:00 on the Kelly/Carlson interview if you want to microwave your head) - …I think he’s freaking hilarious!
The glaze… The glaze is too conspicuous. Especially after calling him daemonic. Why dost thou glaze Tucker? One can only wonder…
An approach towards Trump completely unassuming in posture, an outmaneuvering of all the other opponents before the show even starts. This man, and no one else, is best positioned to succeed Trump - receive blessing and be most likely to actually carry forward the election in 2028. (Disclaimer continued: this was originally written prior to the current collapse of ‘MAGA’, it is precisely even more strategic of Carlson to go against Donald Trump if he so continues, a President who does not in fact hold genuine support and is a brutal liability) Anyone else will most likely drown in public opinion trying to salvage this ‘legacy.’ The anti-Trump? He stands a good chance.
America’s Uncle. Cozy. Comforting. Focus group tested. If you need to be spoon-fed, the theory here is that JD Vance is *literally unelectable* and everyone on the inside knows that, so a vacuum will present itself; the smarter are already planning accordingly. Source? My brain. Newsom would devour him like that shark from Nemo, not to mention the ‘Groyper’ torpedo. Sorry James, it’s the same thing that happened to Cheney, Mondale, Bush against Clinton, etc. We live in an era where personalities, not the best operators, make the Oval. An entire election is not going to be wasted just because the supposed frontrunner has the best power-elite network. Someone else is taking this place. Someone all women in this country can feel warm fuzzy’s about - yeah that’s a real metric and Carlson nails it.
There’s always an Achilles though. Carlson may be the master of his own universe, but deep beneath is another world. You see if a Typhoon Class goes beneath 1000 feet it has a tendency to implode violently, so they tend to stay near the surface. Being at the top blinds one though, especially when there are miles of darkness underneath. The ship may be state of the art, the whole field pre-sighted and outmatched, the staff ostensibly just as seasoned as the captain; but when an out of this world sea creature - Nessie or the Megalodon - ascends to the top to your complete surprise, none of your mechanical acumen can save you from a force of nature. The whole sea turns to the namesake of your vessel, Ramius. That growing current you have been surfing for the past decade, the “rising tide of White identity” to quote someone prophetic, is here to collect your debts.
CONTAINMENT PACKAGED AS DÉTENTE BUT “HEY AT LEAST IT’S NOT ROLLBACK.”
Sit! Jump! Heel! Bark! Silence! If given the chance I would gladly throw you to the wolves. I fear if I keep feeding you, you’ll become one. So I’ll try, one last try, to coax you into that cage.
No event has dominated our Autumn as much as a simple conversation with Nicholas Fuentes. Allegedly clueless, it is like Mr. Carlson was strolling along the trails of Mount St. Helens. ‘Ah this annoying kid, give him his podcast and then we’ll be over with it.’
‘ZzsstssZzsssstZzssst’ the seismograph goes. Just give it a little tap its probably static.
Eruption.
Something brewing like a low rumble for decades amongst the people by and large becomes all the less sensible the more the depths are denied. Buchanan, then vulgar rallying around Bush and the Tea Party ‘movement’ should have all provided ample hints. One could be forgiven to miss it then, still inebriated by not yet dead semblances of the ‘good time’ 1980s eternal. But then came the Second Impact of Donald Trump. For a decade did Tucker Carlson simultaneously pander to White Nationalism while rationalizing every which way how Trump and MAGA is nothing of the sort. Of course White identity is exactly what 2016 was fundamentally about, and this will only get louder.
Just as the liberals were right to recognize Trump being a racist, Zionists are right to call this spade a spade. Shapiro is on the correct vector, principally against his logical enemy. If you followed Tucker Carlson’s narrative, you would think that he, not Fuentes, is the principal target . Carlson being the exoteric enemy, in other words, means he’s not the real one. They’re in this sense just figurative reincarnations of Schleicher and Von Papen - one trying to destroy, the other trying to control. “This has nothing to do with an interview three weeks ago or Nick Fuentes, this is because of something long in the making since Trump took office.” Except, it has everything to do with him and what that interview represented. Those pesky neocons you hate, they have a name.
“And more to the point what he [Fuentes] says on the air and his huge popularity, which has only increased the more these people scream at him, says a lot about the people who are listening and their legitimate concerns. And the factors in our society, in America and the ‘West,’ that gave rise to their attitudes! Like how did this happen? Let’s for once, in the last 20 years, look back and ask ourselves an honest question: how did this happen? Let’s do what we didn’t do when we withdrew from Afghanistan or declared a truce in Iraq or carted away the rubble from 9/11. We never asked how did this happen?”3
Anything and everything but the elephant in the room.
You see, magma is dense matter. It is material. These things ebb and flow, they make no sense according to the usual guiding heuristics those too used to the crust rely on. Foreign policy failures? Ah, yes that’s why we’re racing to civil war. Pundit political thinking doesn’t stand a chance in the face of a reality completely alien to their minute by minute worldviews. Mere peanut gallery opinions of personality, polling on attitude, placing of focus on an assortment of conspiracy theories and dribble content that has no descriptive basis for anything at all. We stand as if watching a cock fight, the “trying to understand” liberal Boomers arguing with the “cancel them” liberal Boomers. What they miss, because of their temperament and ideology being so unbelievably ignorant, is that Nicholas Fuentes is not the cause but simply a vehicle for a far deeper phenomenon bubbling to the surface. Charlie Kirk, that installed interloper who spent the past decade creeping ever Rightward in order to not become irrelevant, was emphatically replaced by Fuentes not years, months, but WEEKS after he was killed! Can you people take the hint?! When the body politic is at a fever pitch in a powder keg of a country, simply suggesting that we need to find “what we all have in common” is asinine. Shall we lower the temperature too?
Inherited hubris blinds those at the top, both in position and in age. Tucker Carlson is no exception. Psychologically speaking, the vast majority of those he has ever been around, especially in professional contexts, are likely not fond of any sort of overt racial consciousness. This is something just generally true amongst the vast majority of Boomers to Millennials, culturally incapable of comprehending what they have been conditioned to equate with evil itself. Like computers short circuiting, they don’t simply hate thinking this way, they can’t even begin to comprehend it. Especially those who lived decades in a world where what is today popular all over social media would absolutely ostracize you forever - Enoch Powell, Sam Francis, David Irving; look how their lives ended up.
Regardless of if this is the main reason, or if it is Carlson’s own principled agency, he is making a catastrophic miscalculation by attempting an idealistic containment attempt against this force. To an ideological mind like his there is nothing materialistic metaphysically about politics. A liberal sees politics as the aggregate competitive discussion of many different ideas. Someone who isn’t deluded understands at a certain point politics becomes the existential conflict between incompatible groups. War itself is the operating logic of all collective human processes and it takes an inverted form in anything ‘political.’ If it is ever not absolutely warlike, it is not due to the impresence of this function, but due to the reduction in antipathetic intensity between sides. If such intensity is low enough, it is no longer existential, and thus a state can exist. If it is high enough, because of existentially relevant cleavages within the state becoming untenable, disorder comes knocking. The good-hearted liberal can see all of the many little things going wrong in the country and piece together a narrative based understanding of why this is happening. The ones on the right blame “wokism and identity politics!” while the ones on the left groan about “polarization” as if both exist as causes and not the symptoms of which they are. A realist understands that what is occurring, despite the many aberrations of form, is invariably correlated with the accelerating degree of material change in the country: professionally, economically, culturally, religiously, ethnoracially; the latter having the most impact on the entire population.
These are the magmatic flows deep under the crust that have ultimately brought us where we are now. Such metapolitical comprehension though is far beneath Carlson’s acumen, severely hampered by his liberalism. All the journalistic, political and even spycraft understandings of the electoral, media and ideological fields fall short if one’s core understanding of the world is subpar. People who don’t think at world-historic levels, but rather those of histrionically defending principles of being nice over anything and everything else, deserve static in their SONARs.
“The mythos, also known as Boomer truth, is what has thrown so many monkey wrenches in the works for the past 80 years of sensible politics.”
- SYNTH BARON, @BaronofSynth on X
Calrson himself warns he fears America is turning into Rwanda. Unlike anyone who shares this view however, he considers this more a choice possibility rather than a material inevitability. Nevermind that America is demographically looking more like the Congo, Columbia or Cambodia, but rather, that those places are infected with “Eastern” thinking. When “the only truly unusual and great thing about the West…” is that “...we do not punish the innocent … we don’t genocide your tribe” and “we treat each person as an individual” - then it becomes paramount, above all other concerns, to extinguish anything, including “thinking,” that is remotely heterodox. A bizarre monism is spawned by this declaration. That “we don’t” do any of that here is not a moral assertion, but rather an ontological one. We are the group who doesn’t do that or “think-” in such a way, ever. For if we ever do, even if not in violent caricatures but simply questioning of the golden cow, then we cease to be Western, better yet, American.
“It’s our responsibility to look at newer generations and ask can we help in any way?”
Who is the intended audience of this great wisdom? Is it any of the groups, rising in number and tenacity across the ‘West’ who are the only ones behaving in the vindictively tribalistic ways of the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s he prophesies about? Or is it another group? The only group who will listen for they are as naive as they are enlightened: Whites, primarily the older and more conditioned ones. We are led to believe that if this group ever began thinking of itself as a people, that would lead “inexorably to genocide.” Ironically, the consciousness of this people is the only thing that will materially prevent America turning into Rwanda.
What other identity would? The identities based on non-real fantasy? Or that we “believe in not real abstractions” that are in fact based in actual realities? When a material situation is fundamentally changing, it will, regardless of any idealism, produce ‘inexorable’ outcomes. Given this is of an existential nature, it will politically manifest in ways that completely override all other politics.
“So if they’re off in some direction that you don’t understand its probably incumbent on you to try to understand, to the extent you can. You know its hard to understand other people’s motives and its even harder to understand when they’re in a different generation…”4
Ooooh you’re getting warm…
“...but making a good faithed effort to figure out what is this? Well that’s on us! Us being, you know, everyone with a job who’s not in that generation. All the beneficiaries of a stronger more cohesive America, the America we grew up in, which doesn’t exist anymore”
Is that so? It sure still seems like America in villas from Acadia to Aspen. That retreat he loves so much, just conveniently composed of over 90% enlightened individuals - that’s higher than much of modern Europe! The narrative control is unbelievably insulting. Do us all a favor and be “honest for once” - oh you, our professional better.
Maybe this interview was the chance for him to realize this. To finally reassess, “learn some lessons” and figure out what is actually going on. He chose the opposite. He chose to become Fuentes’ public shrink. “We need to understand why young men follow this guy” without actually addressing the fundamental claims themselves, but rather diversionary diagnoses that deindustrialization and social media are far greater causes of such despair, just stop talking about this one thing that doesn’t even matter! To add insult to injury, and to prove that this whole ordeal has basically been a bait and switch, Carlson does not whatsoever positively defend Fuentes or any of his positions, rather repeatedly condemning and straw manning them.
“A lot of young men in America, mostly white but not exclusively, listen to Nick Fuentes really carefully and the lesson that our professional betters in Washington have drawn over the past few weeks is that means they’re as bad as Nick Fuentes. They’re Nazis too! Well of course they’re not Nazis by and large. They’re just American young people. And so the question is - and it’s a pressing question if you care about the future of the country - why have they been listening to Nick Fuentes? Sincerely what is this? Why aren’t they listening to somebody from the Heritage Foundation or the Daily Wire. Why do they believe Nick Fuentes more than they believe the people who think they ought to have a monopoly on the attention of young conservatives?”5
Keep focusing only on the surface. Attack attack attack. Like continuously knifing off beer foam that just never stops rising. The best and the brightest, our conservative elite are somehow always dumbfounded.
Carlson’s 40 minute speech about Fuentes’ popularity was more a carefully crafted counter-stroke than it was an honest “learning of lessons” he sold it as. Those millions of young men who watch America First or laugh at his clips, “they’re not Nazis.” They’d have to be reposting Hitler speeches all over Instagram for that to be true. You see, these kids, they’re not as “bad as Nick” - unlike him, they’re “normal people.” As an “elitist” himself, he knows that if these normal peasants I mean people have grievances, it’s not something “abstract” or intellectual like noticing they are being slowly exterminated in their own countries while being lied to for 80 years*, but that the likes of Don Lemon and Biden were mean to them! Carlson of course knows exactly what to do, we need to turn the boil down from 600 to 500 degrees, and then we can all pretend it’s 1980 again.
More populistic conservative media is pushing a psychoanalytical, soft ‘understanding’ and also palpably feminine approach to help us in solving the seemingly omnidimensional riddle that is the rise of Nicholas Fuentes and ‘radicalism’ on the Right. We know what this really is, we’re not that stupid. Shapiro and Levin play bad cop, Carlson, Kelly, Sacks, Walsh, the WSJ, the New York Post etc all play good cop. Carlson and Levin, funny enough, are “longtime friends.” To be fair, this is rupturing, but not fast enough. One group attacks from the literally semetic direction while you, Tucker, shove liberalism down our throat and tell us its Christianity.
TONIGHT’S FORECAST
Sunny with a chance of Hitler
JD Vance is never going to be the President.
Sooner or later he’ll be thrown under the proverbial bus. The novel insight is that this was probably known from the start by the very people who created him. Carlson, someone seemingly too visible to be a backroom actor, is in fact that principal actor. Thiel is too mentally ill to actually be pulling the strings, neoconservatives from Frum to Stephens are too antiquated. Carlson may not be the most intelligent, nor hip, but he is the most strategically placed within the avant-garde Right. The threat to him thus is not from the establishment, but from his own Right flank ‘fringe.’ As someone seemingly only conditionally nationalist, he has and will continue to contain these extreme elements in his camp.
Thus brings us to that perhaps now frozen but ever-real dialectic between Carlson and Fuentes. A dialectic generational just as much as it is political, and thus ripe with misunderstanding and emotional charge. How clear it is from a distance, the determined dreamer in Fuentes sees an inauthenticity in what is for all intents and purposes his political father figure. That man three decades his senior may be callous or not an “empath”, but can see right through his figurative raging child. Just like father and son, neither go anywhere without the other, weaker men are they both if frozen in a standstill.
The children may be unsophisticated, but they are ascendant; they may be unable to build or win anything, yet certainly can they destroy. An uncooperative GOP? A Democratic President. Fuentes may be only the tip of the iceberg indicative of hinterland White males willing to sabotage Iowa or Super-Tuesday, let alone an October that if understood this way, won’t be so surprising: a generic GOP candidate can’t winin this age of ‘identity politics.’ If the man most poised to wield White identity can’t even recognize it, he’ll be swinging with an arm tied around his back.
For the realization Carlson must have is that he has to stop running. He has to stop co-opting as if we couldn’t tell his baiting of Piers Morgan last Fall was flank cover. If you want us you cut the shit. This doesn’t mean you cease your liberalism, it means you treat your partners with the explicit respect deserved by any in a coalition. No double standards, even if subtle. Maybe then, even, do you have a chance of maturing, professionalizing, moralizing those young ‘radicals’ in such desperate need of direction.
It won’t come by deradicalizing them, nor (for them) will success simply come by waiting for Boomers to pass. It will come via a compromise, a conditionality where one can be a little more real while the other tries have a little more feel. That will never happen if one excludes the other. Only will it will happen if one man, the older man, takes that step to reach out his hand and invite the many angry into a constructive tomorrow. Not by placating, nor by just interviewing, not by more throwing of red meat. No, a full fledged offer. One that will only work if built upon the real. A paradox requirement, the old guard liberal and the youthful radicals actually hear each other out. We either do this, or both further pummel into an abyss.
Donald Trump, regardless of his many failings, has shredded open the former control matrix creating a window of opportunity: it is not within his time but after that we decide what will be made of it. For now, it appears Rubio and his orbiting constellation of old regime power will receive the MAGA mantle and shut the door (not that he could, but he certainly could try) on this window. The young ‘radicals’ of today must understand that although the material reality is on their side, the surface strata of regime power re-congealing is not in their interest, potentially even fatal be them on the receiving end of asset seizures or domestic kill-chains. Carlson may be meh, but he’s all you’ve got right now, and in dangerous waters right now matters.
He says he wants to debate Ted Cruz, but imagine if he nationally debated Josh Shapiro? What would be the implication of such a contrast, metapolitically? An iron law of strategy, from business to warfare, is to never lean away from one’s key strength. Everyone will tell him to not be “extreme” just as all those surrounding the green felt hold their poker faces: is your heuristic them, or the two Aces in your hand? Potent is the tenacity of the ascendant anti-Zionist and anti-Regime (as if they aren’t the same) groundswell in this country, and thus potent is its political punching power. The things bigger than ‘politics’ drive massive margins. So then, use it or lose it.
There lies a chance for Tucker Carlson. A paradoxical chance.
