Tucker and Megyn Actually Sound Just Like the Neocons They Love To Bash

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“Retard Right” podcasters such as Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, as FrontPage readers know, are engaged in a conscientious brain rot op to subvert the MAGA movement—and, by extension, the United States—from within. These fifth column malcontents operate, whatever their varying reasons and whether intentionally or incidentally, to depress American resolve and advance the interests of America’s leading geopolitical and civilizational enemies.

High on that of traditional enemies of Judeo-Christian civilization is the Religion of Peace (Islam), for which the “retard Right” now regularly simps. A recent column of mine summarized some (and only some!) of Carlson’s own greatest Islam-simping recent hits:

Carlson has repeatedly taken to praising sharia law. … He has visited virtually seemingly every country in the Arab world, produced propaganda films for a few of them, and even announced his intention to buy a house a Qatar. He has called Hamas not a jihadist but a political organization, said he’d apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden, and has severely downplayed the Americans who have been killed in recent decades by Islamism. And … the eponymous Tucker Carlson Network, in a seemingly earnest post better suited for a satirical Babylon Bee headline, offered this cherry on top: “Muslims love Jesus.”

Nor is this phenomenon limited to Carlson. Far from it, sadly. As Matthew Schmitz observed recently in The Washington Post, there is a growing cabal of “right”-leaning influencers bending over backward to heap praise on Mohammedanism. The execrable Candace Owens, a purported Catholic convert, read from the Quran during her show. The closeted homosexual Stalin mega-fan Nick Fuentes, who was last seen endorsing a Democratic takeover of Congress this November, has taken pains to excoriate alleged anti-Muslim animus.

Hasan Piker is all the rage these days on the Left, but his fetid flavor of “blame America”-style Islamist propaganda is now ascendant in some corners of the so-called Right as well.

But Tucker Carlson the Doha Shill has no greater ally in his crusade (or is it Crusade?) to get the American Right to love Islam than the wretched harridan who would seemingly rather commit seppuku than offer even the slightest rebuke of the one-time king of cable news: Megyn “Grandma Groyper” Kelly. Grandma recently hosted the Shill (again) on her show, and the two has-beens condemned the alleged “anti-Muslim” backlash to their newfound love for the Religion of Peace. In the conversation and in their separate recent musings, the pair sound positively giddy about the role Islam can—indeed, should—play in America and the West, moving forward.

The late Charlie Kirk stridently argued in the final years of his life that Islam is categorically incompatible with Western values and American constitutionalism, but the Mecca-sympathetic podcasters—who have the chutzpah to call themselves Kirk’s friends even as they sanitize and laud his very worst enemies and desecrators—think they’re onto something.

They’re not. But King Solomon, a considerably wiser man, was onto something when he wrote, “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”

With Solomonic wisdom in mind, we see that, in seeking to reconcile Islam and Americanism, “retard Right” podcasters sound an awful lot like a man they usually love to hate: the paradigmatic 21st-century neoconservative, President George W. Bush.

The effort to blur lines between Islamic and Judeo-Christian civilizations in general, and between Islam and Christianity in particular, isn’t merely rooted in a catastrophic ignorance of the extraordinary differences between the biblical worldview and the sharia worldview. It’s also rooted in a fundamentally flawed understanding of human nature itself. The implicit universal operating principle behind Podcastistan’s concerted effort to get the Right to bend the knee to Mecca is that wildly different worldviews and value systems can, and perhaps should, be seamlessly integrated in a single polity.

Call it the “human beings as widgets” view of the world. It’s “universal values” naivety taken to its logical conclusion. It’s the worldview of both the liberal globalists at the United Nations and the open-border fanatics at the Cato Institute. It’s the worldview of the single worst song ever written, John Lennon’s “Imagine.” And ironically, it’s also the worldview of President Bush.

A strident belief in the universal values and aspirations of mankind was the dominant principle of Bush’s waging of the 2000s-era Global War on Terror. Rather than taking a sober and restrained view of the Religion of Peace, which might have led him to pursue targeted offensive military action rooted in a simple desire to defeat evil forces that seek America’s destruction, Bush launched a grandiose and quixotic campaign to democratize the Islamic world in the name of “universal” (by which he really meant Enlightenment) values. As Bush put it in his Second Inaugural Address (2005):

Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul. … We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom, not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability—it is human choices that move events; not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation—God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul.

This was, and remains, absolute philosophical gobbledygook. The idiosyncratic Anglo-American conception of freedom is not a universal calling. It is a culturally distinct inheritance, grounded in certain animating precepts and first principles (namely, the Bible), and subsequently developed in incrementalist fashion over the course of millennia. It is utterly anathema to some, probably most, foreign cultures—many of which, like the Islamic world, love the jackboot of tyranny and do not in any way view Western-style Enlightenment freedom as the “permanent hope of mankind.”

This should be obvious. But to many, it isn’t. Which is why this mindset led Bush to try to sculpt Madisonian democracies out of the terror breeding ground sands of Iraq and the Taliban-infested mountains of Afghanistan. It why this mindset has led countless political elites on both sides of the Atlantic to seek to Islamize their populations with mass migration from the Islamic world. And now it’s led “retard Right” podcasters like Tucker Carlson the Doha Shill and Megyn “Grandma Groyper” Kelly to pretend that the biblical and sharia worldviews are interchangeable.

That’s a delusional proposition. It’s clinically insane. But if there is a silver lining to be had here, it’s that there is no real “right”-leaning political constituency to bring to America (even more) multitudes of third-world Muslims migrants—at least outside the online terrain of certain brain-dead, Jew-hating edgelords. Accordingly, those who push such policies will invariably fall on deaf ears. It’s why liberal globalism is dead and conservative nationalism is ascendant. It’s why the Cato Institute is completely irrelevant in Washington political circles. And it’s why mass deportation is now a politically winning issue in most available polling.

But hey, at least Tucker and Megyn will always have George W. Bush.