Miranda Devine was close to Tucker Carlson for years, so much so that he asked her to write his biography. She was halfway through it when he left Fox. She was on his show frequently and knows him better than most, and does not recognize him anymore. Her explanation is kind, insightful, honest, and concerning. Tucker is powerful and has a broad reach.
Tucker started in journalism, working for Bill Kristol in the neoconservative world. He was talented, charming, a gifted writer, and a force on air. Tucker believes Kristol used those gifts to prosecute the case for the Iraq War—a war Tucker later concluded was a catastrophic mistake. He had a friend die there. He beats himself up about it constantly, Devine says. That guilt is real. That anti-war conviction that grew from it is genuine. Pete Hegseth also came out of the Iraq era deeply skeptical of military intervention and the people who sold it to them. Many or most conservatives feel the same way. Devine said that is not the problem.
Her View Is Worth Hearing
At Fox, Tucker had an exceptional team around him. Executive producer Justin Wells is described as first among equals in Fox’s behind-the-scenes talent. A retinue of genuinely gifted people took Tucker’s immense natural ability and turned it into the number one cable news show in America. You do not achieve that without excellent editorial judgment challenging you.
When Tucker left Fox, he could not keep those people. And now, according to someone who knows him well and has no axe to grind, he is pretty isolated. Isolation is how talented people go wrong. It removes the friction that produces good judgment. It removes the trusted voices that say, “Wait, think about this differently.” It removes the editorial check that separates a genuinely great broadcaster from someone who platforms whatever confirms his existing worldview.
The Tucker Carlson who was brilliant on Fox was Tucker Carlson plus a world-class team that made him better. The Tucker Carlson who sounds like he is rooting for Iran to win, who praises communist dictators, who questions whether Hamas is a terrorist organization, who bought a home in Qatar, and whose content is distributed by the Muslim Brotherhood—that Tucker Carlson is isolated and nursing a decades-old wound about Iraq, writes X poster, M.A. Rothman.
Tucker is isolated and surrounded by the wrong people.
This isn’t Miranda Devine saying this. I’m saying that the new Tucker is causing a lot of damage, and we are going to end up with communists running the country. This bickering is destroying the alliance, and the larger issue is that we are going to end up with a Democrat Party that is allowing the radical far left to take it over.
— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) March 16, 2026
Add to that the fact that he sees himself as one of the most powerful people who can change all this.
Tucker Carlson: "I'm one of the most powerful people with the ability to change America's foreign policy."
Tucker Carlson when he finds out he's being investigated by the CIA for conspiring with Iran: "I'm just a journalist. This is an attack on my free speech!" pic.twitter.com/5vB9PXKpC1
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 16, 2026
I don’t recognize Laura Loomer anymore. She has become a zionist extremist.
This site focusing on Tucker shows that you parrot the zionist line. Tucker is winning the debate.
I would like to add one little thing: I felt the Putin interview was an attempt to let people hear the man’s views. We all knew it would be tinged with Putin’s efforts to prevent a skewed view, but it also gave important understanding. The negative reaction to Tucker’s effort was effectively isolating. He deserved positive recognition.
M. Dowling is reporting objective reality. Prisoner and Tripps are off in a fairy land of subjective reality.
I do not care about this psychoanalysis. The character attacks are sickening.
it is always the same. Tucker will not bow down to Israel, the neocons and evangelists, so he is a target. And of course, the usual nonsense that the dems will take over because of Tucker. It’s nonsense.
One after another, MTG, Massie, Tucker, Owens, and so are, are demonized. No sale.
The war makes no sense, that is the issue here.
Offering information is not ad hominem.
This isn’t a character attack. It’s an honest report.
One can say the same about not recognizing Trump anymore.
He is 100% MAGA, just not for US citizens.
Thanks for some reality here. If you look at the issues, put them on chart, Trump is the one that has changed, a lot. Trump is betraying us badly. He is blocking justice in America, protecting the deep state. He attacks some of his biggest allies and leaves his enemies alone. He launched a major war not in our interests. The deportations appear to be stopped.
The double standards and errors of the people who either cannot understand or are unwilling to understand is disturbing. RINO Princess Bondi was a Qatar lobbyist, she made a ton of money there, > $100,000 per month. But she gets no criticism, because, she bows down to Israel and protects the deep state.
To attack Tucker for any association with Qatar (which many US officials have) shows that people are often just mouthpieces for zionists and neocons.
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