From The Federalist’s Tristan Justice, “Fox News’ Tucker Carlson railed against former House staffer Evan McMullin Friday night as a ‘liberal Democrat’ masquerading in a red state Senate race as an independent.

‘Utah is a conservative highly Republican state,’ Carlson said in his opening prime-time monologue. ‘Evan McMullin has the same politics and worldview as Pete Buttigieg. He is running as a liberal Democrat. But he’s not running as a liberal Democrat, and that’s the key to success this year.’

Tucker Carlson: Evan McMullin Is A Democrat Who Is Lying To Utah Votershttps://t.co/G8m6TWVwLd

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) October 24, 2022

McMullin is running as a self-professed independent, despite running with the complete endorsement of the Democratic Party while his campaign doles out $1.6 million to Democratic consultants in his crusade against GOP incumbent Sen. Mike Lee, one of the most constitutionally conservative senators in office. McMullin is also actively fundraising with the Democrats’ money machine ActBlue.

‘Evan McMullin is roughly as independent as Kamala Harris is,’ Carlson said. ‘McMullin is fully on board with every anti-family scheme the Democratic Party has dreamed up over the last decade. As a supposedly faithful Mormon, he can’t even acknowledge that Roe v. Wade was a bad decision.”

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Establishment Republicans are very upset with @TuckerCarlson for opposing their desired war over Ukraine. There are zero Democrats being loud about opposing this war.

That leaves only a Fox News host and a handful of libertarian Republicans to oppose it. https://t.co/Lv2xS4syiH

— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) February 3, 2022

From my latest at BASEDPolitics, “Politico reported Tuesday that hawkish Republican politicians are getting upset because Carlson’s ‘America First’ message is registering with voters back home.

These Republicans have a message for Tucker: We’re in charge. Not you.

But are they?

In a story that reads more like an opinion column at times, Politico  reporter Andrew Desiderio writes, ‘Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson’s relentless warpath against support for Ukraine—even as it widens an existing rift in their party.’

‘The Fox News prime time host and others on the far-right’ (author’s note: hawkish Republicans aren’t considered ‘far-right’ anymore? That’s new!) ‘have excused and even rationalized Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and downplayed its relevance to U.S. national security,’ the Politico story reads.

‘And while GOP senators are shrugging off his name-and-shame campaign, Carlson’s views are permeating the GOP base in a way that could undermine Republicans’ efforts to emphasize cross-party unity as they seek to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine,’ the piece continues.

In other words, Carlson is messing up hawks’ plans for the next war. Which is… the entire point of what he’s doing.”

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From my latest at Based Politics, “Carlson brought up two important points. For one, why should Americans die because of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine? Secondly, he reminded viewers that elites in both parties will clamor for war every time an international conflict arises.

Carlson is on to something. For the Right, an ‘America First’ foreign policy should mean putting actual Americans before elites’ interests and ideologies…

Most sensible people likely recoil at the idea of risking putting American lives on the line over Ukraine.

Yet to the degree that the American public can be convinced to support a war, how they consume their news—including mostly Republican and independent voters watching big time players like Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham—can play an important role.

Yes, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had 9/11 as justification for their wars, but those who lived through it remember how much the conservative-leaning Fox News pushed for our military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That two of the top personalities at Fox News now put out a non-interventionist message—something anti-war conservatives and libertarians couldn’t have fathomed 15 years ago—is a sight to behold.

Former President Donald Trump blew up the old definition of what constitutes a conservative or Republican foreign policy. Today, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham can’t say ‘America First’ enough…”

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