2/ ...issues for the demo. (Boomer, older GenX non-hs grads who comprise the core of the base). On the alt-right, Bannon's stompy-foot pissy-fit about Tucker and Fox tells you he lost the single best venue for laundering white nationalist...
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
4/ The white nats loved Tucker, whom they called "Our guy" and correctly saw him as a gateway drug for their more virulent and obvious messages. For normies, Tucker could wink and nod about it, but the white-robe crowd filled their hate spank banks with Tucker clips.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
All well and good. But notice how it’s subtly shifting.6/ The shock of this will ripple through the enormous right-wing media ecosystem for ages to come. He was the big goal for MAGA activists: the Tucker Hit.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
Consider this: Ron DeSantis predicated his entire campaign on winning the "Tucker Primary."
8/ ...on the Tucker Carlson White Power Hour on the Blaze or Daily Wire any time soon. TBD, of course, but Fox will leak those details soon enough to chill the waters.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
Which leads us to a fascinating prospect...
10/ ...who presents a material danger to Donald Trump in a primary.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
Celebrity, money, mental acuity, cynicism, pro-Putin isolationism, and an overt love of authoritarianism are a pretty strong secret sauce for the MAGA base.
Celebrity got Trump the WH.
There is always some doom coming, isn't there?12/ This iteration of "A Face In the Crowd" doesn't end with a revelation of the real character of the showman-as-politician. This one ends with Tucker running and possibly winning a herrenvolk campaign, where his flaws don't matter, only his capacity for hate.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
End.
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