Two days before Tucker Carlson was ousted from the Fox News team, he gave a speech at the 50th anniversary event of the Heritage Foundation, arguably America’s most celebrated conservative public policy think tank. The speech was a remarkable example of gripping content delivered with rhetorical excellence, as he combined a reflective—almost rambling—style with acute lucidity. In his address, Carlson suggested that the political tradition which the Anglosphere largely perfected, namely that of ongoing democratic negotiation by various factions who together represent both the unity and divisions of the whole polity, was rapidly waning. Now, he claimed, politics is about good and evil.
