{"id":571823,"date":"2023-04-26T01:44:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-long-will-his-influence-linger\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T01:44:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:44:55","slug":"how-long-will-his-influence-linger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-long-will-his-influence-linger\/","title":{"rendered":"#How long will his influence linger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e0bf438176\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-long-will-his-influence-linger\/#More_media_news_from_The_Hill\" >More media news from The Hill<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/ca._tucker_gettyimages-1332867180.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tucker Carlson is gone from Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>,\u00a0but his influence on conservative politics may linger\u00a0\u2014 at least for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, during his more than six years in Fox\u2019s prime-time lineup, became perhaps more closely aligned than any other host with the strain of right-wing populism that has coursed through the GOP and transformed the party.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>His detractors \u2014 inside and outside of conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \u2014 would see that as sheer opportunism from a calculating figure who initially made his name as a bow-tied quasi-intellectual.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if Carlson\u00a0merely determined\u00a0which\u00a0way the wind was blowing among conservative Americans, he also cut his sails with unusual success.<\/p>\n<p>His show was notable for adopting many of the stances that are shared by former President Trump and by the broader right-wing populist movement.<\/p>\n<p>Those included, but were not limited to, ferocious opposition to illegal immigration, an \u201cAmerica First\u201d isolationism on foreign policy, a propensity to minimize the Capitol riot of Jan. 6,\u00a02021, and a skepticism about many of the measures that were pushed to combat COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Carlson sparked one of many uproars by contending that \u201cleaders\u201d were dishonorably suggesting that the United States has \u201ca moral obligation to admit the world\u2019s poor \u2026 even if makes our own country poorer and dirtier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That kind of language seemed in lockstep with Trump, who had launched his campaign with a reference to \u201crapists\u201d being sent across the southern border and who later reportedly complained about people coming to the U.S. from \u201cshithole\u00a0counties\u201d in Africa and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Critics across politics and the media also contend that Carlson has helped mainstream the racist \u201creplacement theory,\u201d which holds, in essence, that white people are being intentionally supplanted by nonwhites, often for nefarious political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A New York Times report in 2022, for example, noted comments from Carlson the previous year in which he argued \u201cthat Democrats were deliberately importing \u2018more obedient voters from the third world\u2019 to \u2018replace\u2019 the current electorate and keep themselves in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_media_news_from_The_Hill\"><\/span>More media news from The Hill<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">But\u00a0Carlson\u2019s influence stretched far beyond migration.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>His open skepticism about the level of U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine is perceived to have got Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) into trouble last month.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who would be Trump\u2019s most serious rival for the GOP presidential nomination if he enters the race as expected, was replying to a questionnaire from Carlson\u2019s show when he described the war in Ukraine as a \u201cterritorial dispute\u201d in which the United States did not have \u201cvital interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis later sought to finesse those remarks, telling interviewer Piers Morgan that they had been \u201cmischaracterized\u201d and that \u201cobviously\u201d the Russian invasion \u201cwas wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>At other times, Carlson has cited poorly sourced claims that COVID vaccinations correlated with heart attack deaths; broadly downplayed the seriousness of the Capitol riot; and \u2014 of course \u2014 given a platform to false claims about malfeasance around the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election.<\/p>\n<p>His behavior on the final of those matters was one of the central issues in the defamation case taken by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox. The case was settled last week after Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million in damages \u2014 but with no apology from the network.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and independent observers alike acknowledge\u00a0Carlson\u2019s influence\u00a0in recent years. His show routinely pulled in an audience of around\u00a03\u00a0million viewers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The populist strain within the GOP is clearly not going anywhere, they say \u2014 but that\u2019s a different question from whether Carlson himself will maintain his profile and relevance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsent a significant platform, I think his influence will wane,\u201d said Matt Mackowiak, a GOP strategist and the chair of the Travis County Republican Party in Texas. \u201cHis ideological and policy agendas have dovetailed pretty closely with Trump. Now, with Trump a declared candidate again, I think he is going to get bigger and Tucker\u2019s is going to get smaller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackowiak noted other figures who have left Fox News \u2014 Bill O\u2019Reilly, Glenn Beck and Megyn Kelly \u2014 didn\u2019t recapture the prominence they enjoyed while on the network.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Of Carlson, he added, \u201cIt would be foolish to underestimate his influence,\u00a0but I also think he is in a very uncertain place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tobe Berkovitz, a Boston University professor emeritus who specializes in political communications, contended that Carlson\u2019s role as a performer was more enduring than his political influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost, he is a showman \u2014 a high-wattage performer. Sometimes you go out on the ledge a little more than you should. But the show must go on, and you have to get those ratings. That might have been a motivator for some of his more outlandish thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Outlandish or otherwise, Carlson clearly both rode and fueled the populist wave.<\/p>\n<p>That wave seems likely to keep rolling even now that he has crashed.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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