In his ongoing and remarkably successful quest to be the worst of the Fox News nighttime hosts, Tucker Carlson hit a new low on his Tuesday show.
White supremacy, he claimed, isn't a real problem in America: "This is a hoax, just like the Russia hoax. It's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power." (Let's set aside, for a moment, the truth that the Russian attacks on America's voting integrity, in order to help Donald Trump become president, are anything but a hoax, as the Mueller Report made abundantly clear.)
And, Carlson insisted, he has empirical evidence: "I've lived here 50 years and I've never met anybody, not one person who ascribes to white supremacy," he said, adding, "I don't know a single person who thinks that's a good idea.