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Fox News host Tucker Carlson took the stage at the National Review Institute’s 2019 Ideas Summit Friday to question, and just as often mock, the establishment-Republican orthodoxy that has dominated Washington’s conservative circles since the Reagan administration.
Two months after he touched off a long-simmering intra-party debate between populists (a term Carlson rejects) and doctrinaire, free-market conservatives via a gripping opening monologue on his program Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson joined National Review‘s Michael Brendan Dougherty to explore the chasm he’d exposed.
“The more reviled you are, the more written off you are by all of the cool kids, the more likely you are to be saying at least something that’s true,” Carlson said.