OPINION:
Tucker Carlson loathes President Trump.
The cable news cast-off spun quite a hyperbolic tale last week, claiming that Mr. Trump wants to nuke Iran (he doesn’t) and should thus be impeached.
“The second any president actively considers the first use of nuclear weapons, that person should be removed from office immediately, because that’s got to be the red line, destroying all of humanity with a nuclear strike,” said the CIA reject.
“Why isn’t there an attempt to remove him from office, like, immediately? Anyone who would even tolerate that kind of talk from any of his subordinates or employees is by definition unfit.”
Tucker’s verbalized fever dreams are sweet music to the ears of Democrats eager for a Republican distraction from the relationship between their Michigan congressional candidate and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) avatar, Abdul El-Sayed, and his relationship with unofficial Democratic spokesman Hasan Piker.
Mr. Carlson, the Hasan Piker of the right, enjoys immunity from Washington’s elite either because they agree with him or they are afraid of him. I suspect it’s the former, and for reasons more rooted in clearing the way for 2028 than anything ideological.
Almost a year ago, Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation (the organization that awarded me with its 2010 Salvatore Prize but because of my recent criticism likely won’t ever talk to me again), appeared on my show. The topic of discussion: Mr. Roberts’ controversial defense of Mr. Carlson’s softball sit-down with overhyped troll Nick Fuentes.
Mr. Roberts called for unity and labeled Mr. Carlson’s critics — many of them Heritage supporters — a “venomous coalition.” Meanwhile, he and a motley crew of gatekeepers tried passing off legitimate criticism of Mr. Carlson’s refusal to ask a single tough question as some existential attack on free speech.
“Cancel culture,” they all claimed.
Mr. Carlson is once again calling for Mr. Trump’s impeachment. When he’s not busy hosting Holocaust deniers, sinfully compromised self-appointed “pastors” and bitter, defeated politicians licking their wounds, he’s demanding that we “cancel” Mr. Trump.
Are we to still “unify” with this? Are we still supposed to pretend that Mr. Carlson is on the political right after he sang Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s praises, parroted esoteric communist and post-liberal icon Alexander Dugin’s ideas as his own original thoughts and has taken every opportunity to tear down our republic and manipulatively stoke division before the midterms?
Mr. Trump has responded to Mr. Carlson’s unhinged behavior by calling him “low-IQ,” “kooky” and “highly overrated.”
The vice president of the United States describes Mr. Carlson as “a friend of mine” and has repeatedly defended him, saying, “The idea that Tucker has no place in conservatism is frankly absurd” and “I am not going to get into the business of throwing friends under the bus.”
At least the left refuses to say Mr. Piker’s name and has meagerly reduced him to “streamer in California.”
Let’s be clear: It is not a conservative move to demand the impeachment of the Republican president of the United States based on a straw man argument.
Honest and deserved criticism of ridiculous remarks isn’t throwing anyone under any bus. But denying voters their discernment and expecting us to entertain unjustifiable attacks on our election choices to maintain a Washington swamp alliance most certainly is a means of tossing us under the wheels.
Beyond keeping the majority, our goals this November and beyond should include establishing a clear distinction between freedom and whatever feudal, socialist slop Democrats offer.
Socialists have overrun the Democratic Party and are winning primaries across the country. The post-liberal swamp-creature elites are too busy power-jockeying and looking for ways to softly subvert President Trump for 2028 to notice it.
• Dana Loesch is the host of the No. 1 nationally syndicated weekday talk program, “Dana Show,” a bestselling author and a Second Amendment advocate. She lives in Dallas.
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