Tucker Carlson invited a white nationalist troll on his podcast for a softball interview. 

Dave Smith and Marjorie Taylor Greene are falsely accusing Israel of genocide. 

Ben Shapiro has criticized President Trump for investing government money into private enterprise, along with his ongoing tariff program.

Brandon Tatum has faulted other pundits for asserting that Trump will run for a third term, when the United States Constitution clearly forbids it.

And now Republicans in blue states are suggesting President Trump needs to back off on hardcore, complete enforcement of our immigration laws.

The left and corporate media want to characterize these personality and policy disagreements as a MAGA civil war, all to further Democrat chances of regaining power in Congress and then the White House.

This fight has even spilled out into who is MAGA, or who defines MAGA.  At the Republican Jewish Coalition summit in early November, attendees carried signs saying, “Tucker is not MAGA.”

Granted, Tucker Carlson has spent time lately attacking President Trump and propping up left-wing interest in ideologies.  He actually praised now mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani of New York City.  Besides interviewing harsh (often spurious) critics of Israel, Tucker has brought on dubious historians who have questioned World War II and America’s decline, and he has even praised the Taliban and Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

What’s going on here?  Is he corrupting the MAGA brand?  Does Tucker really matter?  How effective is it to target Carlson because........

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