Tucker simply yearns for a more effective and sinister tyrant than Trump. Less buffoonish. It'd make Tucker's job easier. Ron DeSantis has entered the chat
Tucker Carlson doesn't see himself as a professional buffoon, which is all that matters to Tucker Carlson. He behaves accordingly. "Could a professional buffoon be the nation's singularly most-watched political commentator? Besides Joe Rogan? And, occasionally, other buffoons?" - Tucker Carlson's conscience And he's actually got a point! He feeds the base what they want, one node downstream of Trump himself. As recent court filings show. DeSantis probably won't win the GOP nomination, btw. Tiny Meatballs, Tiny D., Ron, will be skewered in the primaries by Trump, unless DeSantis stoops lowwwww, which seems surprisingly hard for DeSantiwhatever given Ron's scumbaggery on LGBTQ rights, censorship of e.g. school books, press criticisms, and bucking of many other policies that are generally popular among Florida voters. The disconnect between voting issues yielded via poll and actual voter choices has perhaps never been more pronounced than it is right now in Florida. I dunno. You'll probably have a hot take, I'm sure, which is A-OK. Trump will probably be more easily defeated by a Biden re-run than Ronnie, so, hey, what're you gonna do? (rhetorical) All that said, you used to think Trump would've lost much more of his support by now, right? What do you think now? (not rhetorical)
Oh yes he does. Paul Blart Mall Cop is fucking over the minute the public views him unfiltered, without the fawning press and edits created by the bothsides teach-the-controversyism of the professional punditry. Dude makes Jeb Bush look like The Fonz. What support are we talking about, exactly? You linked this yourself - CPAC has gone from this heralded anointing at the heart of half a season of Succession to a John Birch Society sideshow. At no point in my college career could I cross the quad and not be heckled by LaRouche cultists. Once a failure has been canonized he will lock in some supporters for life. It didn't matter that LaRouche hadn't been relevant for ten years, there were eager young dewy-eyed dipshits who wanted to tell you about America's Best Socialism every fuckin' day of the week. Trump will be with us for the foreseeable future? But he's become a wedge issue, not a threat.Tucker Carlson doesn't see himself as a professional buffoon
DeSantis probably won't win the GOP nomination, btw.
All that said, you used to think Trump would've lost much more of his support by now, right?