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The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The End of Men

Tucker Carlson was doing almost explicitly a kind of white male identity politics on his show. If that chair were to be filled by Candace Owens, she would be doing a different kind of show. The aesthetics of it are fascist. I don't think he's got militias that he's controls. But if the most powerful seat in conservative media is controlled by someone who is willing to put out aesthetics into the world that strike me as fascist with a capital F like the clinical academic definition, that's not a good thing.

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