Carlson, Fuentes, Mearsheimer and Sachs

10:01 AM Sunday.

I took some time while I was preparing and eating breakfast this morning to listen to the first 8 minutes of Ben Shapiro's Episode 2309. Ben shared some clips of Nick Fuentes. It was the first time I have heard Fuentes speak. Why would Tucker Carlson choose to interview someone of this character? I was astounded by the offensiveness of his rhetoric. Jeff Sachs? Okay. John Mearsheimer? Okay. Nick Fuentes? Definitely not okay. 

There is no need for me to watch Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement. From this point forward, until Carlson repudiates his Fuentes interview as a terrible lapse in judgment, I will feel pressured to assume that anyone who agrees to go on Carlson's show is tainted by association. And I have Mearsheimer and Sachs specifically in mind. I expect these two intellectual heavyweights to draw a clear red line. They should demand that Carlson repudiate his Fuentes interview before they agree to appear on his show again. If they don't, what else can I conclude but that they are genuine anti-Semites? It's one thing to criticize Israel. It's another thing to rush to judgment against Israel in a complex genocide case. That's already intellectually marginal, even if it's emotionally understandable in a spirited and conscientious democracy. But it should be completely beyond the pale for distinguished public intellectuals like Mearsheimer and Sachs to associate themselves via Carlson with the cult leader of a Hitler-idolizing Groyper Army.

This updates my thinking in Which of These Four Videos Should I Watch About Tucker and Shapiro?

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