Tucker Carlson's bizarro-Jan. 6 hearings aim to indict the government
What Tucker Carlson hopes to do is not complicated.
Since Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, the Fox News host has cast his administration as actively hostile to the political right in broad, often racially focused terms. On Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration, Carlson chose to focus on Biden’s denunciation of white nationalist and domestic extremism, casting it as a condemnation of any Republican.
“There’s a new regime in power, and they seem to be planning to accelerate things dramatically,” Carlson warned. “They’re getting the FBI and the Pentagon involved in this hunt for people who may criticize them. That’s a very big change, and you should understand what it’s really about.”
Biden was responding in large part to the riot at the Capitol two weeks before, of course — and Carlson was reacting in response, identifying the dangerous element in the country as the government. He has continued to do so over the course of Biden’s term in office, and particularly as it pertains to the riot itself. Carlson has consistently woven a conspiratorial narrative about government officials leveraging state power against innocent Americans. It’s easy to lose sight of how often Carlson makes false or debunked claims; when I cobbled together a cursory list in January, it included 13 items just in the past few years largely centered on the idea that the government or the elites who control it are the enemy.
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