Is he on drugs, too, like Trump? Carlson’s manic, spasmodic movements, high-pitched cackle, the clown leer, not to mention his authoritarian gibberish extolling strong men inflicting pain, all betray a rudderless psyche and an unstrung self-image.
Incredible how people like Tucker Carlson, lacking any talent or originality, lapse into parodies of their Dear Leader, which means they become parodies of a parody, tuning up parody to its Manneristic fever pitch.
But it’s actually a circular process: Trump evolved his political persona aping the cartoon figures on Fox, who in turn have become more and more slavish in their emulation of his now thoroughly uguarded excess.