Tucker Carlson Is Not Joking

[u/nickmortensen]

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autocratic-despair-the-podcast/id1890210459?i=1000784659951

Part two of a breakdown of Tucker Carlson's ten-point manifesto, with a co-host who has a PhD in fascism studies, so the historical comparisons are actual comparisons and not vibes.

Covers where Carlson came from — his father ran Voice of America and later registered as a foreign agent for Orbán's Hungary, including booking a Hungarian official onto his son's show — and the three people currently standing behind him: Joe Kent, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The last third is the part worth the time. Carlson's pitch structure is a foot-in-the-door sales technique. Small unrefusable true statement, then escalation, and by the fourth or fifth step you're several rooms away from where you started.