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

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Tucker Carlson Could Be President of the United States

At the time at the dawn of the Trump era, I sometimes thought that he thought of himself as a lawyer. And then he begins to embody it, represent it, symbolize it and he is it. Most of us over time find ways to convince ourselves that the things that we're saying, we really believe it. He becomes the lawyer quote unquote for the great replacement theory and a certain kind of white nationalism.

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