Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza told Newsmax on Monday that Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes went far beyond a journalistic exercise — and signaled something deeply troubling within the political right.
Appearing on “Finnerty,” D’Souza said Carlson’s approach to Fuentes, who has praised dictators, denied the Holocaust, and called for dismantling democracy, was less an interview than an attempt to “shepherd him into the mainstream.”
“I have no objection to Tucker interviewing Fuentes,” D’Souza said. “I debated Fuentes myself just a few weeks ago. But the tone of that debate could not be more different, because what Tucker was doing was basically playing a kind of avuncular role, almost like, ‘I am shepherding Nick Fuentes into the mainstream.'”
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