Snowflakes all around,
“I don’t know if it’s racism exactly — but ethno-nationalism of some kind”
Kristol: So I think it’s both. One other thing: the Obama administration was more left wing in 2013, the second term, than the first term. So I think things objectively changed some. The mood of Republicans changed some. And Fox News maybe saw an opportunity, changed some, and then the whole thing together.
I do feel now we’re in a different world. I mean, now you look at – Tucker Carlson began at The Weekly Standard. Tucker Carlson was a great young reporter. He was one of the most gifted 24-year-olds I’ve seen in the 20 years that I edited the magazine. His copy was sort of perfect at age 24.
He had always a little touch of Pat Buchanan-ism, I would say, paleo-conservativism. But that’s very different from what he’s become now. I mean, it is close now to racism, white – I mean, I don’t know if it’s racism exactly– but ethno-nationalism of some kind, let’s call it. A combination of dumbing down, as you said earlier, and stirring people’s emotions in a very unhealthy way.