Democracy Dies in Darkness

The other thing that Tucker Carlson’s text message makes undeniable

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National columnist
May 3, 2023 at 10:50 a.m. EDT
Tucker Carlson attends the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., on July 31, 2022. (Seth Wenig/AP)
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As the New York Times tells it, the trigger for Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News was a text message he sent the day after the Capitol riot.

Carlson and an unidentified producer had been discussing the riot as an outgrowth of Donald Trump’s being a “demonic force, a destroyer,” in Carlson’s wording. After the producer replied that the “Trump anger spiral is vicious,” the Fox host agreed.