Tucker Carlson, you might have heard, is sorry. Early this week he posted a long conversation with his brother, Buckley, a former Trump speechwriter, in which they tried to make sense of the wreckage of the second Donald Trump presidency.

"We're implicated in this, for sure," said Tucker. A few moments later, he added: "It's a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we'll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I'm sorry for misleading people."

For those of us who have spent the last 10 years horror-struck at the mass delusion that Trump is a great man rather than a singularly rapacious and volatile charlatan, Carlson's words might seem cathartic.

Over the past decade, conservatives have been angrily insisting that our mad emperor is elegantly clothed rather than obscenely naked. Now, finally, there's growing agreement about his obvious unfitness.

I'm all for embracing converts to the anti- Trump cause. But if you listen to the dialogue between Tucker and his brother, it's clear that rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America's derangement, they're developing a new conspiracy theory to explain it away.

Trump, they strongly imply, has been compromised--maybe even blackmailed and physically threatened--by Zionist or globalist forces seeking the deliberate destruction of the United States. On Tucker's podcast, Buckley described a systematic undermining of........

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