cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46378035
Opinion - Michelle Goldberg
April 24, 2026
[shareable 30-day gift article]I’m all for embracing converts to the anti-Trump cause. But if you listen to the dialogue between Tucker and his brother, it’s clear that rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America’s derangement, they’re developing a new conspiracy theory to explain it away.
Trump, they strongly imply, has been compromised — maybe even blackmailed and physically threatened — by Zionist or globalist forces seeking the deliberate destruction of the United States. On Tucker’s podcast, Buckley described a systematic undermining of America through the George Floyd protests, mass migration and now the war with Iran.
“It can’t be a confluence of random events,” Buckley said. “It is clearly by design. It’s clearly been a long-term plan.”
After World War I, when Germany humiliated itself in a war that it started, right-wing populists embraced the dolchstoßlegende, or stab-in-the-back myth, blaming Jews for their country’s defeat. Now, as the American right contemplates the entirely foreseeable catastrophe that an unbridled Trump has visited on America, some are creating a new stab-in-the-back myth about Zionism to make sense of it.
I don’t disagree with the idea that Trump is compromised, probably in many ways. But Tucker contributed and only now is he trying to rewrite his own history of involvement. Also, Trump is just as likely to simply be the dumbest motherfucker alive.
“It can’t be a confluence of random events,” Buckley said. “It is clearly by design. It’s clearly been a long-term plan.”
He said in his Hot Dog costume while discussing who drove the Hot Dog car into a store…
