Tucker Carlson and the Twisted Politics of “Owning the Libs”
A tirade against mask-wearing reveals how people like Carlson have emptied popular conservatism of substance
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4 min readApr 29, 2021
H.L. Mencken famously defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” With the Covid-19 pandemic entering (we hope) its final stages in the U.S…