𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐄: "𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐆𝐍𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄" Miranda Devine was close enough to Tucker Carlson that he asked her to write his biography. She was halfway through it when he left Fox. She was on his show constantly. She knows him. And she does not recognize what he has become. Her explanation is worth hearing — because it is charitable, honest, and ultimately more damning than any partisan attack could be. Tucker started in journalism working for Bill Kristol in the neoconservative world. He was young, charismatic, a gifted writer, great on air. And he believes Kristol used those gifts to prosecute the case for the Iraq War — a war Tucker later concluded was a catastrophic mistake. He had a friend die there. He beats himself up about it constantly. That guilt is real. That anti-war conviction that grew from it is genuine. And Devine is right that Tucker is not alone — a whole generation of conservatives, Pete Hegseth among them, came out of the Iraq era deeply skeptical of military intervention and the people who sold it to them. I've said as much. The skepticism itself is not the problem. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. At Fox, Tucker had an exceptional team around him. Executive producer Justin Wells — described as first among equals in Fox behind-the-scenes talent. A retinue of genuinely gifted people who took Tucker's immense natural ability and turned it into the number one cable news show in America. You do not achieve that without excellent editorial judgment surrounding you, challenging you, sharpening you. When Tucker left Fox, he could not keep those people. And now, according to someone who knows him well and has no axe to grind, 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. That word matters. Isolation is how talented people go wrong. It removes the friction that produces good judgment. It removes the trusted voices that say — wait, think about this differently. It removes the editorial check that separates a genuinely great broadcaster from someone platforming whatever confirms his existing worldview. The Tucker Carlson who was brilliant on Fox was Tucker Carlson plus a world-class team that made him better. The Tucker Carlson who says he is rooting for Iran to win, who praises communist dictators, who questions whether H-m-s is a terrorist organization, who bought a home in Qatar and whose content is distributed by the Muslim Brotherhood — that Tucker Carlson is isolated, nursing a decades-old wound about Iraq, and apparently surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear rather than what he needs to hear. Devine's account does not excuse what Tucker has become. It explains it. And the explanation is in some ways sadder than the simpler version — because it suggests a genuinely talented man who once did great work has been undone not by malice but by isolation, guilt, and the absence of people willing to push back. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬. And there is only one person to blame for what comes out of Tucker's mouth, and that's Tucker himself. Donald J Trump Trump MAGA White House .D. Vance America Great Again Leavitt #Tucker #TuckerCarlson #Iran #Trump #Israel