Tony Badran’s 7,000-word Tablet essay — “The Right’s Sectarian Moment” — seems to me the column of the year so far. It is posted with the subhead “There is no massacre of Christians happening in Syria. But that lie took hold for a reason — and grasping it is the key to understanding something important about American domestic politics.”
In the essay Badran takes up Tucker Carlson’s efforts to drive a wedge between Christians and Israel. He also traces the ripple effects of Tucker’s project among other precincts on the right.
I have decried Tucker’s descent into the muck since I first saw it in the latter days of his FOX News show and subsequently on his Tucker Carlson Today podcast, but without any understanding of what he was up to. Badran presents a scholarly and persuasive analysis of what he is up to.
I was among the many conservative fans of Tucker’s Fox News show and frequently celebrated him until he went off the rails. Indeed, I proudly appeared as a guest on his Fox News show in days gone by. Having publicly extolled his good work in the past, I intend to continue to speak up publicly against him now that he is an even more influential figure on the right peddling a rotten bill of goods.
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