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Tucker Carlson recently favorably praised and interviewed Darryl Cooper as one of the best historians around and as a podcaster with a substantial following. Tucker’s admired guest spouted off a Churchill-hating, Hitler-loving, anti-semitic distortion of history. For him, Churchill was “psychotic” and largely responsible for WWII, while Hitler was a deeply, misunderstood man of peace. Tucker’s reception of this idiocy in the interview would make Dana Bash blush. You can find the full interview here.

Tucker has made many important contributions to the conservative movement but has gradually, even before leaving Fox, started to drift into questionable positions. He is the proverbial boy who when “He is good, he is very good and when he is bad, he is very, very bad”. Perhaps this emerges in part from his sensationalist style of “journalism”. He often seems awestruck, with mouth agape, rendering his guests more profound than they are, and often succeeds in transferring that sentiment to his audience.

He had bugged me for a while but my suspicions came to a head around his broadcasts on the Russia/Ukraine war. I had understood there have always been legitimate criticisms of Ukraine yet I strongly opposed Putin’s invasion. What got me was Tucker mouthing Putin’s lies in almost the same words I had read and heard from pro-Russian commentators. It wasn’t even “decent” plagiarism.

Trump, in contrast, went to the heart of it. He declared a quick end to military solutions through a negotiated settlement. He famously promised to end the war starting the first 24 hours of his Presidency with consequences for those continuing it. He wisely maintained strategic ambiguity but you could sense Trump’s hot breath towards Putin.

Putin has now come out for Harris over Trump and suddenly declared himself open for negotiations. To openly support one American candidate over another reveals Putin’s panic over a Trump victory. Tucker’s softball interview of Putin was an assist for the dictator in this battle.

Flash forward to the Cooper interview. Cooper’s phony history is turned to mincemeat in the VDH refutation of Cooper’s take on WWII. I highly recommend it.

Cooper also posted in August of 2023, the following claim that God sent the Romans “to destroy the leprous temple and put an end to the Israelite religion for all time.” He is a thorough-going anti-semite which is likely to be informing his pro-Hitler views. Or perhaps, it’s the other way around. You can’t always know with these lunatics.

Jew Hatred is the Western world’s most ancient hatred. It rests below the surface ready to emerge with or without provocation. It has zero place in the MAGA movement and always has thanks to President Donald J. Trump and other true, patriotic conservatives. His policies towards Israel while in office, his lifelong behaviors towards the many Jews he has known and worked with and his beloved daughter Ivanka’s conversion to Judaism which he honored all attest to the authenticity of his convictions.

Donald Trump rests firmly in the mainstream of the conservative tradition which sees America as a Christian nation based upon Judeo-Christian values. This tradition goes back to George Washington and the Founding Fathers.

The MAGA right is the answer to these harmful views in our historical moment. We must always make clear our distance from those such as Candace Owen, a “conservative” who has become a full-blown anti-semite. And we must separate ourselves from retrograde Christian positions so contrary to our mainstream and the authentic message of Christianity.

There is also a practical political reason to draw the line sharply. The left, specifically the communist left, which now operates through cultural Marxism and Wokeness, evokes the principle of the “united front against fascism”. This strategy has guided the left ever since Georgi Dimitrov, Stalin’s henchman, articulated it in 1935. Today it is called intersectionality on campuses. This trope is behind all attacks on the right and on Trump as a fascist or fascist enabler. Any links to Hitler’s beliefs or the holder of such beliefs are used to paint all conservatives with the same brush. It is a key component of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Tucker should quickly and loudly disavow Cooper. He is scheduled to do an interview with J.D. Vance shortly and you can bet that the longer Tucker remains in apparent admiration of a history revisionist Hitler lover, the longer the left will have a field day against the right seeking to fuse us into one big fascist movement in waiting.

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