Thread by @letsgomathias

New: After @TuckerCarlson doubled down on promoting the “great replacement” conspiracy theory — which has inspired multiple bloody pogroms — white nationalists were gleeful at what they saw as a mass radicalization event courtesy the folks at @FoxNews.

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Nick Fuentes, the Holocaust-denying 'America First' leader who attended the Charlottesville rally & helped lead insurrection, exclaimed that Tucker 'redpilled 4 million people"

White nationalist website VDARE gushed over Tucker like a proud parent.

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“Great segment mentioning unmentionable reality of demographic replacement,” tweeted Kevin MacDonald, one of neo-Nazis' most beloved authors. “Doesn’t explicitly mention Whites but obviously implied.” huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

MacDonald — who published books claiming Jews are genetically motivated to destroy white European culture — then referred to a portion of Carlson’s segment in which the host lashed out at the Anti-Defamation League as a “must-see for conservatives.” huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

The fascists were especially excited at Tucker's attack on the ADL, which he accused of being hypocritical for supporting "replacement" theory in Israel but not in the US.

This argument, noted @BenLorber8, is extremely common among fascists who.... huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

have long seized on ideological inconsistencies of the ADL & “some liberal Zionists, Jewish and non-Jewish” who “support liberal policies in the U.S. and illiberal policies in Israel” as a way of portraying all Jews as hypocrites, @BenLorber8 said.

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.@jaredlholt talked to me about how white nationalists are borrowing a page from the GOP’s playbook, portraying liberal outrage over Carlson’s “great replacement” remarks as simply another example of “cancel culture” run amok.
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White nationalists, @jaredlholt said, are trying to "leverage" reflexive GOP support for Tucker to further the impression that the "‘great replacement’ is not a third rail of politics soaked in the blood of decades of mass murders of minority communities.” huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

White nationalists love to talk about widening the “Overton window” — a term for the range of acceptable political discussion — to better include their vile ideas.

A headline on white nationalist site VDARE: “Tucker’s Overton Window-Smashing Broadside' huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

.@GoAngelo fears when it comes to the “great replacement” the Overton Window has already been thrown wide open.

“What scares me is that Tucker was saying this stuff six years ago on Infowars, with Alex Jones," he said. Now it's on “Fox’s anchor program.” huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

“Unless we ...short circuit” what he is doing, @GoAngelo said, “the inevitable end in all of this is what Carlson has been talking abt for quite some time, which is race war. That’s what this guy wants. It’s what he advocates for. It’s what he believes.” huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

Tucker/Trump have same playbook: Inject explicit white nationalist poison into the news cycle, count on the support of Fox & GOP, & then assume anger over it will die down after you incite a new cycle of outrage with new awful/incendiary remarks huffpost.com/entry/white-na…

Ultimately, Nazis are excited because @FoxNews is allowing its star host to promote a white nationalist conspiracy theory that inspired pogroms at mosques in New Zealand, a Walmart in El Paso, & a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Work at Fox? You are complicit
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TLDR, this but with Tucker/Nazis theonion.com/why-do-all-the…

Also, something that didn't make it in the story: here's Matthew Gebert — a white nationalist who, even after
@MichaelEHayden exposed him, may still be getting a paycheck from the State Dept. — saying that Tucker could "go places Trump never dared."