Is Tucker Carlson a True Believer?

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

News & Politics

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Is Tucker Carlson really a true believer in the MAGA world? Has he taken a dive too deep in the Republican rabbit hole? Or is this all just a performance for the ratings? For the money? For the clout? It’s a vexing question, according to host Andy Levy on this week’s episode of political podcast The New Abnormal. “We’ve had many conversations about the performative aspect of this and trying to figure out who we think are true believers,” Levy says to guest, the author and CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp. Also on the podcast, Levy talks to guest podcast host Maura Quint, co-founder of Tax March and the campaign director for Americans for Tax Fairness, about a recent Gallup poll finding that trust in the Supreme Court is at a record low. Then Levy tells Daily Beast politics reporter Zachary Petrizzo that the only surprising part of that New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s new Trump book was that Trump aides were apparently taken aback by his crude, transphobic behavior.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:06.4	objector.
0:07.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:10.2	And I'm producer Jesse Kettin, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:14.0	the rails.
0:15.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some great guest co-hosts, as well as
0:19.4	some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people in politics, media, and beyond.
0:24.1	Our goal is to try to make some sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and
0:28.8	hopefully even make you laugh through the tears.
0:31.4	What an excellent show we have today.
0:33.2	First we're going to talk to author and CNN political commentator, S.E. Cup, and she's
0:37.6	going to try to make sense of what's going on with the Republican Party.
0:40.7	Then we're going to talk to Daily Beast political reporter, Zach Patrizzo, who of course
0:44.6	covers some of the more wacky parts of the right wing, and he's got a lot to tell
0:48.2	us today.
0:49.2	But first, we have a special guest host with Mora Quinn, who's a co-founder of Tax March
0:54.2	and the campaign director for Americans for Tax Fairness, as well as a lefty contributor
0:58.4	to Talking Print Media.
1:00.2	Mora Quinn.
1:01.2	Andy Levy.
1:02.2	So, first of all, thanks for being here.
1:04.2	Thanks for sitting in and guest hosting with us.
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