Underestimate Tucker Carlson at your peril

There has been an understandably high volume of coverage following Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News, much of it celebratory on the Left and Right, but one element has been missing until now that was hinted at by, of all people, Abby Grossberg and at, of all places, MSNBC.

“He was looking for ratings bait. Purely. And uh was also looking for power. It was a combination of ratings and power and manipulating the audience. And manipulating also the political system.”

“There was an aspect of ‘I can pick who the Speaker is. I can pick who the president of the United States is, pick who the Republican candidate is going to be.’ I thought that was very dangerous and didn’t want that kind of power.”