Tucker Carlson: “He really served one meaningful role in his life, which was…”

“I'm not, you know, it was awfully nice to me, I will say so. I'm not, I don't hate the guy or anything, but it in retrospect, I mean, He really served one meaningful role in his life, which was to keep a certain variety of nationalism out of the conservative canon. Yeah, I think we can see this over and over again. I mean, you even think of a guy like Russell Kirk, right, wrote the Conservative Mind, one of the intellectual actual giants defining the movement, and more or less got canceled because he kept.” (53:31–53:42)

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