Tucker Carlson claims to love America. He speaks of its history and its greatness with something close to devotion. But recent remarks suggest that his love has limits.
Sitting there, composed and confident, he announced in an interview with Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes on March 19 that American primacy is finished. The unipolar world is over. Taiwan, he contends, cannot be defended. The wise course, per the self-styled patriot, is to accommodate Chinese power rather than resist it.
For a man who presents himself as a fearless truth-teller and has spent years warning about the Chinese Communist Party, his conclusion is a strange one.
Consider what Carlson is actually proposing to accommodate.
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