Tucker Carlson is no longer an employee of Fox News. The news was announced two days after a controversial article in the American Prospects by Luke Goldstein and Lee Harris that many objected to. Dan O'Brien: I think this is a really important debate, something we've touched on before when we did our episode on right wing populism. And specifically, the sort of pathology I wrote about in my sub stack piece, kind of owning the libs brainworms where there's also that piece of it.
In this live streamed News Brief from 4/26/23, we discuss the recent firing of Tucker Carlson and the meta-discourse around whether or not "the left" should see any utility in petty, racist demagogues.