Tucker Carlson’s recent dive into amplifying and legitimizing the idea that America and the Allies were the bad guys in WWII, and that the Nazis weren’t actually guilty of a Holocaust can be seen in the context of antisemitism. Tucker had tried to take the side of Islamic terrorists against Israel after Oct 7.

But it can also be seen in the context of Tucker’s attempts to argue that America was also the bad guy in the war with Japan and bizarre claims that dropping atomic bombs on Japan was a plot against Christians.

If America was the villain in WWII in the war with Japan, it stands to reason that it was also the villain in the war with Nazi Germany. And that’s the way leftists tend to see America. They start with the premise that everything about America is rotten and then rationalize the premise by defending our enemies whether it’s Islamic terrorists, Nazis, or criminals.

The larger context though is that after FOX, Tucker let his freak flag fly and embraced every kind of insanity promoted by some social media influencer with a platform.

After starting off on Twitter with UFOs, Tucker was up for anything including a flat earth.

“What do you think of flat Earth theory, Tucker?” Stein asked. Carlson responded by stating he is “open to anything.”

“How could I not be open to anything at this point? I mean, there’s been so much deception that you can’t trust your preconceptions.”

It’s a familiar argument and it works great with Tucker’s “just asking questions” routine, but it also perfectly captures what’s wrong with him and so many other influencers.

Truth isn’t the opposite of lies. The opposite of lies is just more lies.

Truth is what happens when you reject lies, not when you reject everything.

The sleight of hand used by so many influencers trying to promote the dumbest, worst and evilest ideas is that since the establishment and the media lies, it’s time to embrace the opposite of whatever they say.

That’s how Tucker ends up arguing that because there’s so much deception, maybe the earth is flat.

A flat earth is what happens when you don’t really believe in anything, you just disbelieve. That’s not actual skepticism or a search for truth, it’s nihilism. It’s the sort of radicalism that fueled Marxist and leftist movements that set out to discard everything and begin again from Year Zero. Believe in nothing and you are nothing.

Or, worse still, like Tucker, you come to believe in the worst and dumbest things because they’re the opposite of whatever it was you used to believe.