Behind Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance, a revolt against the GOP unfolds

[Zorro]

“The Republican Party is getting better,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson informed his viewers some time ago. “We know that because of two new Republican Senate candidates.”

In the next few months, those two candidates — J.D. Vance in Ohio and Blake Masters in Arizona — will face GOP primary voters. This means that, in a sense, Carlson’s kingmaking will be on the ballot.

Carlson’s promotion of Vance and Masters is the subject of an ambitious new piece in the New York Times, which notes that both face stiff challenges from other Republicans. If they lose, Carlson’s mission — to make the GOP “better” — will have fizzled.

The Times piece designates this phenomenon as “the rise of the Tucker Carlson politician.” Vance and Masters hope to ride the electoral passions unleashed by Donald Trump, not through personal loyalty to Trump, but by giving voice to right-wing populist nationalism while seeking to “align instead with Carlson.”

https://wapo.st/36idt2g

[pwb]

1. Sounds good Tucky.

Dividing your party is a great idea.

[dixiechiken1]

2. By all means, please proceed...

[Walleye]

3. Keep it upIn 2010 Sean Hannity thought he was gonna make Christine O'Donnell a senator from Delaware

The Delaware Republican Party still hasn’t recovered. They primaried a very popular moderate GOP congressman who was up for the Senate seat that was vacated by Joe Biden when he became VP.

[usonian]

4. HEY DONALD!

Tucker sure looks like a challenger.
Gets more air time than you!

Is it time for some

?????????????

[lagomorph777]

5. Sounds like a "I'm crazier than you" contest.

But that seems like business as usual in the GQP to me.