What Happened to Tucker Carlson?

From a voice of reason to a conspiracy-brained wine aunt

Tucker Carlson has become one of the strangest people in American politics. Half the time he sounds like the only sane person in the room, and the other half he sounds like he was bitten by a feral raccoon.

I never had much respect for Tucker until 2020. I always saw him as a pompous neocon dork who wore a bowtie. But during the peak of COVID insanity, his viral monologues made him an authoritative and level-headed voice on the right.

However, after Tucker was fired from Fox News and launched the Tucker Carlson Network on YouTube, he started to change. His personality has become difficult to bare. He’s one-dimensional, predictable, and annoyingly agreeable with his guests regardless of how vapid they can be. Tucker has always been a bit sassy, but over the last few years — he’s become a meme of himself.

“Like, what IS that?!”

Tucker also makes bold claims about topics that are completely unprovable. He’ll frantically claim UFOs are demons that live all around us, then finish the sentence with a passive-aggressive “obviously.”

I often find myself thinking: “No, Tucker. None of what you just said is remotely obvious to anyone.”

It’s becoming harder to take Tucker Carlson seriously.