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The Bizarro World of MTG, Tucker, Candace, and the Woke Right – HotAir

It took me months to understand the whole concept of “woke right,” and, to be honest, I still dislike the description because it takes so long to grasp. 

While I basically agree with James Lindsey’s arguments, it’s a branding fail. Memes should be intuitive, IMHO. 





So what IS the woke right, and why would I put Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and Andrew Tate in that category, along with others?

“Woke” is not so much an ideology in itself, although it is easy to think so since it has been so long associated with leftism and Cultural Marxism. Woke is, instead, a type of thinking that draws on Critical Theory, using the redefinition of words and concepts that appeal to people (compassion, science, patriotism, kindness, or whatever floats your boat) and redefining them in ways that weaponize them against the prevailing culture, or the cultural group at which your assault is aimed. 

Woke, in other words, is weaponized memes. (A meme is a spreadable idea, not just a funny photo with an edge.) 

Meme: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

“Silence is violence” is a meme. “Microaggressions” is a meme. “The Jewish conspiracy” is a meme. 

Memes are powerful weapons in an ideological war because they frame conflicts, creating an ideological battlefield that favors the proponent. Memes can promote ideas or concepts, but they can also completely destroy the ordinary meanings that make rational conversation possible. 

They can enlighten or destroy. “Woke” uses memes to destroy the prevailing understanding. 

What makes Tucker Carlson and many others the “woke right” is their weaponization of the very term “conservative.”

When Americans speak of “conservatism,” we generally mean Classical Liberalism, although some conservatives have added a Burkean element that is in tension with Classical Liberalism but is mostly compatible. Perhaps someday I will write about the Venn Diagram and where they overlap and where they don’t, but for the moment, give me this: “conservatives” believe that rights and moral worth inhere in individuals and that liberty is an essential value. Burkeans would add that societies must develop traditions as well as legal structures to realize a society that we would recognize as “Liberal.” 





I would argue that Tucker, Candace, the current version of MTG that Beege wrote about earlier today, and most certainly Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes have adopted identities that appeal to the idea of “conservative,” but which in fact are not in the least conservative. And they are using the argument that there should be “no enemies to the Right” as a shield from necessary criticism. 

MTG is promoting Code Pink and attacking Republicans.

Candace trying to destroy TPUSA.

Tucker suggesting we should abandon all our current allies and instead prioritize siding with Islamist slave states and anti-American dictators.

All coordinating together and promoting each other.

At some point you have to realize these people aren’t on your side. They snuck into the tent are trying to tear it down from the inside. Only question is if you let them.

Let’s leave aside Candace and MTG for the moment. Candace is clearly insane, or is just grifting, and MTG has never been a deep thinker. Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes are worth thinking about because they clearly have touched a nerve with people, appealing to some on the Right and using their platforms to irritate the left to the delight of many, but I will leave them aside as well. 





Tucker is the most interesting because he has been the most influential, the longest aligned with conservatives, and is, for good or ill, a very, very smart man who is using his platform for very bad things. He is using the goodwill he built up over the years to promote vicious ideas and bad people, and is doing real damage to the conservative movement. 

Many conservatives have had their own breaking point with Tucker, but too many have remained loyal to a man who is spreading horrific ideas. And by spreading, I don’t just mean “platforming,” because I don’t necessarily agree that interviewing bad people with bad ideas is a bad thing. Even a serious interview with Nick Fuentes, done properly, has value, and I don’t condemn Tucker for sitting down with execrable people and interviewing them. 

Any good journalist would be a fool to reject an interview opportunity with Vlad the Mad Putin. He is one of the most important men in the world, and it’s important to understand how he thinks and why he does things. The interview could have been better, but I don’t even think he had a responsibility to attack Putin to his face. 





But for me, the tongue bath he gave to Russia, which is almost a failed state, and his love of Stalin’s subways, his celebration of Russian grocery stores, and his celebration of the Russian way of life were ridiculous and deceptive. It was propaganda, and as Pravda-like as anything in the leftist media. 

But the tongue bath itself didn’t make Tucker “woke,” just gullible. The proof that Tucker has gone woke, using the meme “conservative” as a weapon against Liberalism, is his consistent attacks on the American political ideal and the increasing embrace of antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism. (Opposing Zionism as a concept is not, in itself, anti-semitic, but almost all anti-Zionists today are in fact antisemitic.)

If there is one perfect example of Tucker’s sharp anti-Liberal term, it is his now consistent embrace of feudalism. 





Feudalism is a class-based system, and Liberalism is fundamentally the opposite of feudalism. Functionally speaking, Communism was almost a feudal system with strict classes, serfs, and elites who themselves are divided into ranks. This is a rough analogy, but I think it holds. 

Tucker doesn’t just use his authority as a “conservative” to attack Israel, but as a tool to promote absolutist systems of government, memes about suspect classes such as Jews, and to promote anti-Western ideologists such as Francesca Albanese, the “UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian territories”, who is an antisemitic anti-Westerner who has been sanctioned by the Trump administration. 

Tucker Carlson just devoted half his podcast to an admiring interview with Francesca Albanese — a UN official sanctioned by the Trump administration, who openly despises America. Francesca Albanese has said that:

🔸 The U.S. is “a nation founded upon genocide.”

🔸 America is “a state built on racism and colonial violence.”

🔸 The U.S. “reproduces the same racist colonial logic abroad” that it applies at home.

🔸 U.S. policy is driven by a “racist colonial worldview.”

This is the person Tucker decided to legitimize for millions of viewers.

A man who claims to love America just handed the microphone to someone who says America is racist, colonial, and illegitimate





Tucker regularly uses his platform now to promote absolutist governments and has taken to praising Sharia law. He seems enamored with people like Andrew Tate, who himself converted to Islam at least partly based on his contempt for women, and of course, he gives much more favorable treatment to Nick Fuentes, who loves Stalin and Hitler, than to Ted Cruz, whom he hates with a passion. Fuentes, too, is on a Jihad against women and argues that Islam is right about women. 

All of these people are enemies of Classical Liberalism, and hence enemies of American Conservatism, which is based on individual liberty and the elimination of class as a political concept. If you cannot agree that, as a moral and legal matter, all human beings are equal, then it’s hard to see where conservatives overlap with your ideology. 

“Conservative” is being redefined as “reactionary” by these people. 

Woke redefines words and concepts as a weapon to undermine our ability to think rationally, and the abuse of the word “conservative” to legitimize fundamentally anti-Liberal (and anti-Constitutional) ideas is, in fact, “woke.” It is using the tactics of Critical Theorists against us. 

Calling these people “conservatives” now is as deceptive as calling David French or Bill Kristol “Republicans.” They are not, and we should say so and reject them as one of ours. 







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