Why Tucker Carlson Is More Like David Duke Than You Think
His leaked text message echoes the blatant white supremacy of America’s most infamous racist
As a general rule, I am reluctant to compare people with David Duke.
Having spent the early years of my career in the campaigns to defeat Duke when he ran for U.S. Senate and Governor of Louisiana, I am well aware of his affinity for Hitlerian race theory and Nazi-like anti-Semitism.
And I am clear that there are degrees of racism, such that suggesting Duke is no different than Reagan, Bush, Trump, or whomever — an argument I’ve heard made many times — amounts to hyperbole of a particularly uninformed variety.
Duke used to throw birthday parties for Adolf Hitler, even buying a cake for the occasion.
So far as I know, he may still.
He said Jews should go into the ashbin of history in a 1986 interview, a portion of which we turned into a radio ad which you can listen to here.
He has called for “Aryan warriors” to take back America from those who have, in his mind, despoiled it — this in his autobiography.
That makes him categorically different from, say, Ann Coulter or Matt Walsh or any number of boilerplate…
