Tucker Carlson Leaves FOX: Now What?
What Happens When the GOP's Chief Narrative-Driver Moves On?
We are not a news network, but it seems worth noting that highly influential host Tucker Carlson has left FOX “News”.
CNN is also speculating on a connection with the settlement on the Dominion lawsuit:
Tucker Carlson has essentially been driving the direction of the current GOP. So now what? Does he become a podcaster? Does he join Steve Bannon? Does he join FOX News competitior The First — a new far-right cable network?
As the wise one would say, “We’ll see.”
I doubt he’s going away. Ego + influence are hard drugs to quit. Perhaps he’ll join the nascent Trump 2024 campaign.
Either way… I doubt we’ve seen the last of Mr. Carlson. Tucker Carlson as a free agent may be as destabilizing for the US social fabric as Tucker Carlson at FOX has been. He’s got a powerful and large enough following that he could bring his following to a new location for more fragmentation.
Of course, what we need is not more division. We need more cohesion and connection.
Anand Giridharadas points out what many understand — FOX and the far right have been de-developing our society. How do we counter that?
We counter it with community, connection, and with caring for humans. With activities that rebuild connections, and reweave the social fabric.
That’s what’s behind our methodology here at Shift the Country. We’re brand new as an operational thing; with brand new events. But they’re real. This shift is real.
We can build a future based on connection and community. It won’t happen if we sit back and watch Tucker Carlson and his ilk drive the future of this country.
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Good riddance, Tucker Carlson! I'm not a FOX viewer (I don't watch TV at all). But you don't have to watch television to grasp how damaging his lies and disinformation have been to our democracy. Sadly, it likely will not take long for him to surface somewhere else to continue spewing his vitriol. It sure would be interesting to know the real story behind what happened... I've read that a "reliable source" says his departure was not part of the Dominion settlement. But the timing certainly seems more than coincidental. Anyway, there are others at FOX who are no doubt champing at the bit to step into his shoes. We'll soon find out whether FOX was chastened at all by the Dominion decision.