Recommended Reading: Just Asking Questions About Tucker Carlson's Murder Castle
Recommended Reading: Just Asking Questions About Tucker Carlson's Murder Castle
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Tal Lavin, Amanda Moore, Parker Molloy, Bradley Onishi, and Melissa del Bosque.
The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
Tal Lavin writes that “many and various sources (unnamed) are telling me that Tucker Carlson has a murder castle. For legal reasons I can’t say that I’m certain Tucker Carlson has a murder castle, but if it were legally possible, I would be saying it.”
Amanda Moore writes that “while the assault on democracy didn’t start on January 6, I believe this country has not begun to reckon with the rapid radicalization that occurred during the course of the pandemic.”
Parker Molloy writes that “DeSantis has been carrying out a wildly anti-speech agenda that has involved penalizing the Tampa Bay Rays because he didn’t like tweets that the team sent, trying to shake down Disney in a (sadly, successful) effort to get them to shut up about his anti-LGBTQ policies, micromanaging mask policies within private businesses, and signing laws that outright restrict speech that doesn’t advance his fascist agenda.”
Noah Berlatsky writes that “Democratic leaders have been targeted for violence by right-wing radicals, insurrectionists, and would-be assassins in every election since 2018. This is part of a GOP embrace of violence that, in its terrifying escalation, threatens both democracy with a small d and the physical safety of Democratic leaders, partisans, and voters.”
Bradley Onishi writes that “the story of Christian nationalism is a story of monsters coming to attack the normal, the ordinary, the good lives of everyday Christians who simply want a country where God - and they - are in charge and no one questions them. In order to explain why things feels so bad to them, they invent monsters in the form of demons, invaders, aliens, and zombies who are outsiders, less than human, more than human, out for blood, out for vengeance, and always out to destroy God and their way of life.”
Melissa del Bosque writes that “if history teaches us anything, it’s that justice is rarely served, especially when it’s being meted out by the Texas Rangers and the victims are Mexican. And when the aggressors are in law enforcement, chances are even slimmer.”
