🧵Ok, I think we need a thread here on how Tucker Carlson ended up getting this bat-guano insane email from the New York Times. It's the product of a left-wing conspiracy that's been making the rounds this week.
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1852361885162852847
2/ Heather Cox Richardson is a Boston College history professor that writes "Letters From An American" -- one of the most popular Substacks in the country.
3/ The newsletter is kind of the height of midwittery, but follows a simple formula: Pick some obscure or inapt historical event and use it to illustrate why Trump and/or Republicans are the devil. Suffice to say, people lap it up.
4/ Naturally, on Monday morning Richardson was all over the Trump at MSG/Nazi rally comparisons, and tossed off this aside in her column. It's clearly a bad faith jab trying to tie Trump to the Proud Boys, done in a "just asking questions" way. 
5/ So that lands in thousands of liberal inboxes, and later that day "journalist" Katie Couric reads a chunk of Richardson's newsletter in a livestream with Puck's Tara Palmieri -- including the bit about wearing black and gold to support the Proud Boys.
https://x.com/BrentHBaker/status/1851005039600415091
6/ Based on the email to Tucker above, now a complete conspiracy theory has taken hold in the liberal elite, and now even the New York Times is trying to launder into respectability the notion that if you wear black and gold you support fascism.
7/ I don't care much that stuff like this happens. There are always fevered swamps of paranoia in politics but...
8/ ...what I care about is that the narrative for several years has been the right has to be censored for spouting disreputable conspiracies, while ignoring that the vaunted New York Times doing the same thing is a much bigger problem than randos on the right with X accounts. FIN
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