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

James Surowiecki
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4 min readApr 29, 2021

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Screenshot from Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox, 4/26/21

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…

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James Surowiecki
GEN
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.