Why do all these respectable conservatives keep platforming Nazis and agreeing with them before, during and after the fact?

Speaking of Bari Weiss and Nazi apologetics, let’s check in on another dim point of the Intellectual Dark Web superfund site:

[About to throw out transparently idiotic 11-dimensional Hungry Hungry Hippos take]

[Clears throat]

“Occam’s razor suggests…”

Anyway, if you actually know what Occam’s razor means, the answer here is that “Tucker Carlson frequently expresses far-right authoritarian views and provides an uncritical platform to right-wing authoritarians up to and including Putin and Orban because he is a far-right authoritarian.”

As a punchline, Carlson’s lengthy Vladimir Putin rim job was so pathetically obsequious the Russian officials paying various useless idiots to push their propaganda line thought that Tucker was making it too obvious and should tone it down a little:

Russian indictees pushed US hires to promote Tucker Carlson propaganda video. Company employees pushed back “it just feels like overt shilling.” pic.twitter.com/7kbB97Eap2— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) September 4, 2024

[Strokes drool-covered chin] “It’s just because he doesn’t like Trump or Putin and wants to undermine them!”

[PC] Steven Lubet points out how irresponsible it is for the New York Times to describe Darryl Cooper as a “revisionist” historian. Revisionist history involves arguably correct re-interpretations of historical events. Cooper is a Holocaust denier, period.