No no. Don't leave that out. I would be interested in hearing it. I also think you are no giving the credit due to the white evangelical faction that Eisenhower let into the White House. These people are a death cult that believe that all Jews must return to the homeland before Christ can return and they are willing to burn down the whole world to prove themselves right. While I think Berry Goldwater is a shitheel he was completely right the evangelical faction that was invading the Republican party.

So the overton window has shifted so far to the right that the far-right maga policies are now viewed as too moderate for the new new insurgent wing of the republican party?

And the lesson they take away is that instead of shifting back towards the center and being more honest and actually delivering for their voters, is to double down on the hatred, greed, and fear-mongering?

It's so disgusting that Democrats can't talk about climate change, healthcare, higher education, accountability, or repairing democracy, because these are supposedly "culture war issues," and yet the right-wing digs its feet in on aggravating discontent and pointing the ire directly at the only ones trying to solve the actual problems people feel.

How have we not learned this lesson yet as a country? It's like deja vu, or more accurately groundhog day.

I must applaud this analysis cause rarely in the wild do I find sickos that know ball this well

So bravo

And cause I am also a sicko I want to add a few more things to chew on

As you already alluded to, and I will add an additional allegory, Tucker is the Daniel Day Lewis of political pundits.

When he changes characters he is in a league of his own. And part of that is he has a genius level read on the pulse of politics. And ironically, cause it is typically something you more often find Marxists doing, not so much modern right-wingers, is that he is insanely good at identifying the contradictions in our politics, in our imperialism, and even in capitalism itself.

Like if someone is so inclined, if you read the opening chapter or so of his book, I think it was Ship of Fools, it basically just reads like semi accurate leftist critique of American capitalism translated into America B language. But he peppers in just enough ethnonationalism and causation misdirection to seed people in a more right wing Trumpian direction and away from a true capitalist and class critique.

And I suspect that is what he is doing here again thru this new persona that as you rightly note is targeting the political/voter contradictions on Israel and repackaging ethnonationalist right wing economic populism and astutely incorporating some of the DSA energy as well(see him praising Abdul El Sayed and note the shift in people under 40 embracing socialism and socialist policies, even on the right).

And I will add this elite/counter-elite push and pull is a pattern we see repeat again and again in right wing politics and media.

There is the Establishment and the elites that are backing them. Then there is typically some counterfroces to their right dialing up the rhetoric on various tension points between the party elite and the right wing masses, identifying those contradictions and misalignments so they can exploit them as the more authentic voice for "the people." Who themselves are usually backed by some counter elites seeking to gain more influence in the larger political space.

They embrace positions, posturing, and/or manufacture a movement that presents like it is challenging the Republican Party, eschewing unpopular aspects while fronting certain populist energies thru that anti establishment image. Gain enough support for it to create a crisis within the existing status quo, use that to leverage to gain more power and influence within the party/politics in exchange for sheep-dogging people back into the party.

Reagan Revolution, Moral Majority, Tea Party, Trumpism, etc. All followed a similar pattern.

And on the media side no one has done it better or more often then Tucker. He is a bellwether people should not ever ignore or underestimate.

And a cheat code for seeing who and where people are aligning themselves is not to just look at what they say, but what they do behind the scenes.

Peek thru the veil at Tucker and you will find someone maneuvering in between his post Fox News backer Omeed Malik and toward the JD Vance wing of oligarchs(not a fan of the source but it is the one I could find reporting on this recently)

https://jewishinsider.com/2026/08/vance-fundraiser-with-tucker-carlson-backer-omeed-malik-raises-eyebrows/

My personal theory is Tucker, and this is based on his movements behind the scenes, is trying to position himself as a kingmaker voice in 28 for using his clout on this issues he is on the correct side of to then sheepdog people into Vance. Which he will use to demonstrate he is a goodboy to the Thiel wing of the oligarchy he is trying to ingratiate with, and he is smart enough to know Vance has no chance in 28(in 150 years no party with an incumbent president anywhere near this unpopular has won a non-incumbent presidential race and the Republican Party under current material conditions is in no position to break that trend).

And I would also go out on a limb and say I would not be shocked if Tucker wants to then position himself as a Trumpian like figure for 2032 or 2036.

Have you written this up in an article or blog or class somewhere? If ai you should link it, please.

So these people think maga wasn't extreme enough? Not far-right enough?

It wasn't even hyperbolic to call the maga movement fascism. And yet these people viewed it as too moderate?

That's a scary prospect, but I know a lot of republican voters don't want the insanity. They're just fooled into thinking a "moderate republican" platform still exists in practice. Maybe this movement will wake those voters up, maybe even restore a viable moderate republican platform. That will at least shift the overton window a little towards the center.

After all, without trump's perplexing charisma, I don't think they'll have a singular figurehead to unite around. Nobody to threaten, bribe, and intimidate people into compliance. Stephen Miller and JD Vance don't have that kind of sway. I doubt Tucker Carlson does either, but we'll see.

So this could blow up in their faces. The party caucus seems to be digging in on the "No, the voters are wrong, we need to double down." So maybe they'll shoot themselves in the foot even harder than centrist dems are trying to do to themselves now.

It'll be a shitshow for a couple years, but it'll be interesting to see what effect this has on the primaries.

A thread of hope at least, is better than none.

Yes, literally since Nixon at the bare minimum. And before then, they were at least somewhat loyal to the constitution…. sometimes.

Oh I'd say Hegseth is about there

To be fair they’re probably just Peter Theil experiments because he’s the modern day Arasaka CEO

Hot take: these guys are just Republicans

764 and O9A

What the fuck. I like following these groups because I want to know who the fucknuggets are I need to watch out for. This is the first I have heard of these people.

Can't find any news either. Be nice if it's true, though. heh

Also, I don’t get why the wingers seem to be so fixated on furries.

They're obsessed with a narrow band of approved behaviors and anything outside of that is evil. They see it as sexual deviancy and a moral stain on society, and everyone promoting it is obviously the enemy.

Haha, das ist urkomisch. Wenn das hier das Deutschland der 1920er-Jahre wäre, würden wir Deutsch sprechen – tun wir aber nicht, wir sprechen Englisch. Warte mal, tun wir das etwa nicht? Ach du Scheiße! Ach du Scheiße, du hast recht! Oh, fick mich doch, wie kommen wir zurück nach … na ja … bloß nicht nach 2026, suchen wir uns ein anderes Jahr aus. Vielleicht 1990, und wir machen dieses Mal einiges anders?