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Latest article linked below: Diving into the breaking news that Tucker is out at Fox. Lingering questions, analysis on where he ends up, political and media prospects, and what it means for 2024 and the growing authoritarian movement.

BREAKING NEWS: TUCKER CARLSON IS OUT. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox, but it doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination

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Latest article linked below: Diving into the breaking news that Tucker is out at Fox. Lingering questions, analysis on where he ends up, political and media prospects, and what it means for 2024 and the growing authoritarian movement.

BREAKING NEWS: TUCKER CARLSON IS OUT. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox, but it doesn't mean we're out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination

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Whatever happens, don’t make the mistake of thinking FNC is the end all be all on the Right. It’s seen as old and too moderate and due for extinction. Tucker straddled the fault lines better than anybody and the seismic shifts leading to 2024 and beyond are massive.

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There’s likely a very intense game today with online Right influencers jumping between calls with FNC to gauge future opportunities and crash meetings trying to get Tucker with them for a new pirate venture. Things are about to get wild.

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One of the biggest misunderstandings is that the Right/GOP is unified. This is an ongoing war between factions and Tucker was able to straddle the line for awhile. That’s wildly useful for the insurgent and authoritarian Right who wants to kill Fox and the old GOP.

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Here are the lingering questions: 1. Is Tucker’s exit a business decision, his choice, or is there something radioactive here? 2. Can online traffic be turned into a Fox Killer? Especially with generational difficulties? 3. Does Tucker want to get into politics?

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What could happen with non-Fox Right Wingers and Tucker might look a bit like the post-2020 OANN/Newsmax challenge to FNC, but outside cable and old media dynamics. There is a larger audience out there online and the question is whether it can be harvested.

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Reactions today will be telling. There’s still no developing narrative over why this happened, which gives the online Right space to create their anti-Fox narrative. My guess is they’re testing the waters to see how this Tucker exit happened in order to gauge opportunities.

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The likely narrative is that Fox “went woke” or “caved to the mob” and then you have an outsiders’ move to corral viewers and push for an exodus. There’s an opening there, especially as Tucker and the online Right have radicalized millions.

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Over the next few hours and days I’m going to be watching to see how Right Wing influencers outside the Fox orbit react to Tucker leaving. They speak the same language and there’s an incredible amount of profit to be made to expand that ecosystem.

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The mess we’re in right now is so large and complicated and requires so much energy and change and action that it’s not going to be solved by a cable host leaving or someone getting indicted.

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I hate that I’m always the guy who has to say this, but Tucker Carlson either leaving or getting tossed out at Fox News isn’t going to be a catchall positive. He’s going to do something awful and worse because there’s tons of money in doing something awful and worse.

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Apr 23

So much of the AI coverage centers around treating it like it’s a burgeoning consciousness. And it’s not. It’s a tool designed and programmed by the wealthy and powerful. It works how they want it to work. The mythology of independence is going to be incredibly useful for them

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Besides destroying the economic lives of people and worsening misinformation, AI will be used by the powerful to perpetuate intentional inequality of old while giving them cover to say, “You know, we feel terrible about this, but it’s what the AI says…”

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Apr 20

Twitter is continuing to suppress content like the link to my article below. Fox News made a bet that it was worth undermining democracy and endangering lives to protect their profits. This economy is wired to produce disastrous results.

When Attacking Democracy is the Right Business Decision

Fox News made a calculated risk that undermining a free and fair election was in their best interest. And they weren't wrong.

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Of Fascist and Fascistic Movements

Besides being historically inaccurate, a lot of these “debates” about whether MAGA is fascist obscure hard truths Fascism is a constant problem of the human condition Conservatism was steeped in it before Trump There is a massive authoritarian movement

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Regarding the debate over whether the current Right Wing / MAGA movement is fascist or something else.For more on this topic, get your copy of THE MIDNIGHT K...

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West Coast. I’ll be at the

@latimesbooks

festival tomorrow at 1030 discussing the threat against democracy Then, Tuesday at

@changinghands

bookstore at 630, I’ll be with my Muckrake co-host

@CanYouHearMeSMH

for our first live appearance to discuss THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM Come out.

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West Coast. I’ll be at the

@latimesbooks

festival tomorrow at 1030 discussing the threat against democracy Then, Tuesday at

@changinghands

bookstore at 630, I’ll be with my Muckrake co-host

@CanYouHearMeSMH

for our first live appearance to discuss THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM Come out.

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Apr 20

Kind of poetic that Musk delivered such a massive, self-inflicted wound to Twitter with this verification disaster the same day his multi-billion dollar rocket exploded.

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Apr 20

Twitter is continuing to suppress content like the link to my article below. Fox News made a bet that it was worth undermining democracy and endangering lives to protect their profits. This economy is wired to produce disastrous results.

When Attacking Democracy is the Right Business Decision

Fox News made a calculated risk that undermining a free and fair election was in their best interest. And they weren't wrong.

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Apr 19

Listen. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Twitter. My account has been so continuously throttled and hidden that people assumed I left months ago. If you want to keep up with my work and analysis head over here and subscribe.

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton | Substack

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future. Click to read Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton, a Substack publication...

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Apr 19

Listen. I don’t know what’s going to happen with Twitter. My account has been so continuously throttled and hidden that people assumed I left months ago. If you want to keep up with my work and analysis head over here and subscribe.

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton | Substack

Diagnosing a world in crisis while finding means and strategies for a better, realer, more human future. Click to read Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton, a Substack publication...

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Apr 18

Fox News faced a choice following 2020: amplify the Big Lie or risk losing its audience to Newsmax, OANN, or some other upstart. They chose to lie, worsened the country, and the cost was $700 million dollars. A drop in the bucket of their profits and worth the investment.

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Fox News has made billions of dollars stoking white supremacist paranoia that has both endangered democracy itself and cost people their lives, safety, and relationships. It's disgusting that those profits can save it from total and deserved annihilation.

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Until there’s a sea change and people care more about the lives and fates of others than getting cheap goods not much is going to get better.

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And to argue over labels is also an attempt to maintain the authoritarian structures that served you well in an attempt to reclaim them from Trump and the rabble you’d rather control than serve. Again, this was a LONG time coming. And solving the issue takes more than this.

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Sorry, but you can dress up your authoritarian impulses in “American Exceptionalism” and religion all you want, but they’re still authoritarian impulses. You’re living in the consequences of your legacy and the truth hurts. Argue about semantics all you want, but still true.

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They created a hegemonic structure with technocratic driven oppression and now that that project requires a more authoritarian push they don’t want to be associated with it unless it’s helmed by someone more respectable than Donald Trump.

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The point is that the same people who created this mess through GOP projects that stole elections, attacked people of color, women, LGBTQ communities, the poor, and unleashed fascistic global wars of conquest now want to deny what they’ve done.

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Affiliated projects like National Conservatism and Christian Nationalism are cousins of fascism and the religious components it bastardized. The framework is the same because these movements are part of a larger historical cycle. My book THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM details this.

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At the heart of our current crisis is a worldwide authoritarian movement that sees an opening with the neoliberal crisis to destroy liberalism forever while rolling back progress and recreating entrenched heirarchical structures. This is what fascism wanted as well.

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Reaganism and classic GOP projects were authoritarian cruelty with a smile and a happy ad campaign. But they used the same racism, the same conspiracy theories, the same ideology. It felt better for them, and what MAGA does is make them confront their deserved shame.

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So many moderates and “respectable” Republicans want to believe MAGA is an aberration, but it’s only an intensifying of the same ideas, paranoia, violence, and antidemocratic energies that have been there all along and have been essential for their political projects.

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Fascism wasn’t just an Italian or German issue. It spread around the world, to the US, UK, France, as an answer to another socioeconomic crisis that required authoritarian solutions. And why? Because white supremacist capitalism is at the heart of all of this.

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What we’re dealing with now is a crisis of a declining America and the consequences of a neoliberal globalism that has hidden authoritarian elements that must now be outright embraced should it continue. The authoritarian movement that wants to do this is fascistic.

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And to argue over labels is also an attempt to maintain the authoritarian structures that served you well in an attempt to reclaim them from Trump and the rabble you’d rather control than serve. Again, this was a LONG time coming. And solving the issue takes more than this.

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Sorry, but you can dress up your authoritarian impulses in “American Exceptionalism” and religion all you want, but they’re still authoritarian impulses. You’re living in the consequences of your legacy and the truth hurts. Argue about semantics all you want, but still true.

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They created a hegemonic structure with technocratic driven oppression and now that that project requires a more authoritarian push they don’t want to be associated with it unless it’s helmed by someone more respectable than Donald Trump.

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The point is that the same people who created this mess through GOP projects that stole elections, attacked people of color, women, LGBTQ communities, the poor, and unleashed fascistic global wars of conquest now want to deny what they’ve done.

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