Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Is A Hoax (Like Russia)

Click here for an article at the Daily Beast by Justin Baragona entitled "Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Is a ‘Hoax’ and ‘Not a Real Problem in America.'"

“It’s a hoax,” he declared. “Just like the Russia hoax, it’s a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”

I don't get Fox and therefore don't see Carlson's program (although I've seen enough Carlson clips to have despised the man for more than ten years). But I've read that it would be difficult to differentiate between a transcript of a Tucker Carlson show and the "Hispanic invasion" manifesto of the El Paso shooter.

Crediting the president for condemning white supremacy while addressing the recent mass shootings, Carlson not only blasted critics of the president but took it a step further and dismissed the issue of white supremacy altogether, saying “the whole thing is a lie.”

Carlson says the white supremacy threat is "actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium."

That may or may not be true -- I don't think there are a bunch of well-organized white supremacist organizations with thousands of followers -- but the reality is that these wackos are lone-wolf shooters who do not belong to any "organization," and they draw comfort and support from Trump's bigoted, racist remarks in his tweets and at his rallies.

He opens the piece by saying, "It's not the job of this show to defend the president, everything he says, and some things we're not going to defend." I'd be interested to know just what those things are that you're not going to defend, Tucker.

He goes on to say about Trump: "He never endorsed white supremacy, or came close to endorsing white supremacy. That's just a lie."

Quite the straw man Tucker has set up there. I've never heard anyone say that Trump has said "I'm a white supremacist," or "I endorse white supremacy." He hasn't. It's all done with dog whistles, and the white supremacists hear it loud and clear. And while all Trump supporters are not white supremacists, all white supremacists are Trump supporters, because they know he wants to accomplish the same things they do. David Duke loves him; comments on The Daily Stormer regularly refer to Trump as "the god-emperor."