After a book trashing Tucker Carlson is cancelled, a Leftist at Politico steps in to carry on

You almost certainly have never been a member of the military, but you should know something about war:  Good nations try to avoid killing civilian citizens from the other side unless unavoidable.  By contrast, bad nations support killing the other side's civilians as a goal. 

Democrat party strategists have seen how this works, and know that by going after "little people" with a vengeance--parents yelling at school board members, people protesting outside abortion clinics, people walking by the capitol on January 6 regime--it makes everyone else keep quiet, head bowed, obedient.

Meanwhile they let muggers and random racially-motivated killers and smash-and-grab thieves walk out free.  Hmmm...

With that as background:  For a politician, trying to discredit your opponent has always been fair game.  If I don't have good policies but can convince voters you beat your wife or abuse kids or torture animals, I win.  Long history of that.

But the never-seen strategists of the Democrat party realized that when voters are leaving the party over its ghastly, stupid policies (open borders, printing money, bribing people for votes by forcing taxpayers to pay off their student loans, etc) one of the most effective things they can do to reduce the number of people leaving the plantation is to discredit the most popular proponents of conservatism--people who connect with ordinary voters.

In this case, Tucker Carlson.

Ah, you think this is fiction?  Paranoia?  "Right-wing conspiracy tales"?  No, the link will show ya.

It's a piece in the Democrat-fellating rag "Politico," by a total leftist named Michael Schaffer.  Seems that one of his leftist comrades from his days on The New Republic had gotten a contract to write a book trashing Carlson.  Title was "Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unravelling of the Conservative Mind."

Ahh, "hated by all the right people," y'say?  And "the unravelling of the conservative mind."  Who would think there was any malice there, eh?

But after missed deadlines and the author of the hit-piece--whom ol' Mike fawns is "a top-shelf writer"!--being unable to show Carlson was a child-abuser or wife-beater or drug addict (Hunty biden?) or making huge money from bribes or insider trading (Hunty, joe, Nancy Pelosi?), the publisher cancelled the project.

WELL...this apparently infuriated ol' Mike.  The "cool kidz" in ol' Mike's circle expected the book to destroy one of the most popular conservative analysts and commentators, so it just wasn't FAIR that now this wouldn't happen.  Who could pass up the chance to destroy a guy ol' Mike finally, grudgingly admits--28 paragraphs into his piece--was the highest-rated TV host in history.

So ol' Mike decided this was the perfect chance to step in and carry the banner onward!  So he writes 3,000 words for Politico claiming the reason the publisher killed the project was probably because Tucker isn't nearly as popular or effective as when he was on Fox. 

Wait...if Tucker is as unpopular and ineffective as you claim, Mike, why write 3,000 words on him?  Why not just let him fade into obscurity, eh?

Surely everyone did catch that obvious contradiction, right?

Neither the author nor the erstwhile publisher would comment for ol' Mike's article.

With nothing juicy left, ol' Mike resorts to calling Carlson an "immigrant-baiting Putin admirer."  It's merely a coincidence that the Democrat media talking heads called Tucker "Putin's puppet," eh?

Point is that the Left/Democrats are what you might call "full-service killers:"  they've discovered that writing articles trashing popular, well-spoken, well-educated conservative supporters is a great way to get young Americans to stay on the Democrat plantation.  It's just another way for Dems to win NOT on the merits of sound policies, but by smearing effective conservative speakers.

If Democrats can't beat Trump on policies, trash those who support his policies.  Brilliant!

Source: Politico

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/14/tucker-carlson-book-canceled-00163285