Opinion | Tucker Carlson and the Right’s Long History of Sanitizing the Nazis - POLITICO

"Carlson's decision to wade into such murky waters shouldn't be a total shock. Over the past few years, Carlson, like others on the right, have embraced a populist-nationalist streak that has courted some of the darkest forces in American politics. This interview comes only a few months after top MAGA influencer Candace Owens declared that Israel was supplying arms for a "Christian Holocaust"; and two years ago, Donald Trump had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, though he later said he was unaware of Fuentes' identity. 

But the mounting attraction of today's America First movement to antisemitism and Holocaust denial has much deeper roots than the rise of Trump or his ideological predecessor Buchanan. It connects to a strain of the radical right that has been present for many decades, one that has nourished hostility to defending democracy at home and abroad. Throughout, a key element of this strain of thinking has been to depict liberals as communists — a tradition many in the GOP continue to follow even if they don't all understand its radical roots. As Trump inveighs against "Comrade" Kamala Harris, he fits snugly into this tradition…"

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