The correct response to uncertainty is humility, not conspiracy. But conspiracy is exactly what many of those who are influential in Trump's orbit have succumbed to—everything must be a product of the DISC, or the deep state, or the World Economic Forum, or other sinister and hidden controlling hands. The cynical Tucker Carlson of the Dominion era has given way to a more crankish version since his firing from Fox. When Carlson first went independent, he seemed to be hosting kooks for clicks. On his live tour, for example, he looked faintly embarrassed as Roseanne Barr told him that Democrats "love the taste of human flesh and they drink human blood." And maybe he didn't really believe the former crack user who claimed to have had a gay affair with Barack Obama, or the historian who asserts that Winston Churchill—not Adolf Hitler—was the "chief villain" in the Second World War. But at a certain point, I started to take Carlson at his word. Recently, he claimed that he'd woken up with scars and claw marks after being attacked by a demon in his bedroom. A few days before this, he said that America needed a "vigorous spanking" from Daddy Trump, and a few days after, Carlson revealed that he thought demons had invented the atom bomb. He's clearly working through some stuff...
