Carlson, borrowing the former president’s “deep state” canards, has portrayed as a false-flag operation masterminded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has aggressively defended the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. Carlson channels the passions and grievances that have replaced the Reagan-era conservatism he grew up on, from the tyranny of mask mandates to the grave danger posed by critical race theory in schools. Carlson remains, both high priest and champion of Mr. Trump is out of office and banned or suspended from the leading social media platforms. Carlson’s influence reaches far beyond the channel he works for, or the audience that tunes in to his show. Trump to draw the largest audience of any show on television. Carlson would harness the tidal wave of white resentment animated by Mr. His importance to the Murdochs has grown along with his ratings, giving him unusual power at the network. At Fox, his popularity with viewers has allowed him to fend off external critics and shut down those within, from news anchors to junior employees who objected to his rhetoric. Carlson declined to be interviewed for this article. Murdoch’s profit machine against the long-term decline in cable news subscriptions. Carlson’s on-air provocations have been part of a painstaking, data-driven campaign to build and hold Fox’s audience, according to former Fox executives and employees - an experiment that has succeeded wildly in bolstering Mr.
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Murdoch and Fox executives have often couched their defense of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” as a protection of free inquiry and controversial opinions, the reality is less high-minded.
He forged a relationship with Lachlan Murdoch, the Murdoch family’s heir apparent, who would become his most public supporter at Fox. Carlson would be both instigator and beneficiary of Fox’s civil war. Trump fought to build a border wall and keep Muslims out of the United States, Fox’s journalists and right-wing commentators would clash repeatedly over what many longtime staff members saw as a creeping invasion of the news divisions by allies and functionaries of the higher-rated, pro-Trump prime-time hosts. Carlson’s darkening arc foreshadowed a transformation beginning to sweep through Fox itself. Carlson dialed up the intensity, expertly weaving tropes borrowed from the far right into a narrative that would come to define “Tucker Carlson Tonight”: falling birthrates among the native-born, big-city crime, lax immigration policies designed to forcibly alter American society - all engineered or encouraged by a “ruling class” desperate to censor public discussion of its own failures. Stories about the threat of immigration had long been a feature of Fox. Carlson said had left “streets covered - pardon us now, but it’s true - with human feces.” (It was not true: Local officials ultimately documented a single instance of a refugee child who had pulled down his pants outside because he couldn’t make it back home in time.) He cataloged, and magnified, overlooked instances of what he cast as growing discrimination against white Americans. He inveighed against Macy’s new line of hijabs, and devoted a segment to “Gypsy” refugees in a Pennsylvania town who Mr.
He began seeking out stories, one friend observed, that were sometimes “really weird” and often inaccurate but tapped into viewers’ fears of a trampled-on American culture. Carlson made it the centerpiece of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” Trump took unvarnished nativism from the right-wing fringe to the Oval Office, Mr. Carlson had adopted increasingly catastrophic views of immigration and the country’s shifting demographics. For years, as his television career sputtered, Mr. Trump’s allure - white panic over the country’s changing ethnic composition - while keeping a carefully measured distance from the president himself. The show would grasp the emotional core of Mr. “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host and his producers decided, would embrace Trumpism, not Mr. It would ultimately thrust him to the forefront of the nationalist forces reshaping American conservatism.
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