That was the message Newsweek senior editor-at-large Josh Hammer delivered shortly after Carlson’s shocking ouster from Fox News, speaking for much of the American conservative movement at the time.

“Hopefully, Carlson will retain something approximating his exceptional level of cultural and political influence in whatever role he next serves, because his witness to truth and civilizational sanity has never been more necessary,” the conservative pundit added in his April 2023 column.

Nearly a year later, Hammer’s tone towards the former primetime cable-news star has noticeably shifted.

“Turns out Tucker needed Fox more than Fox needed Tucker. Very sad,” he tweeted this week.

So, what changed? Long story short: Gaza.

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that's been the GOP positions for the last 60 years.

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this guy is definitely a poaster.

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“One of the scenes that left an impression on my mind yesterday—and there are many scenes—is the scene of the Israeli youth who were celebrating a concert in the open air [the Nova music festival] just outside the borders of Gaza, and how they escaped,” Isaac said in his Oct. 8 sermon. “What a great contradiction, between the besieged poor on the one hand, and the wealthy people celebrating as if there was nothing behind the wall. Gaza exposes the hypocrisy of the world.”

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While taking aim at evangelical leaders and “self-professed Christian” lawmakers, Carlson claimed the United States has been “sending money to oppress Christians in the Middle East.” He urged Republicans to cut off military aid to Israel. “It would be pretty easy for Republicans in the U.S. Congress to say we support the government of Israel. But if you touch a single Christian, harm a single church, prevent any Christian from practicing his religion, you’re done,” he declared. “Not a single dollar will come from the U.S. Congress for you.”

Carlson then concluded: “If you wake up in the morning and decide that your Christian faith requires you to support a foreign government, blowing up churches and killing Christians. I think you’ve lost the thread.”

Needless to say, especially since right-wing media and GOP officials have relentlessly bashed progressives over their increasingly pro-Palestinian stance, Carlson’s screed went over like a lead balloon with a certain contingency of conservatives.

“Tucker is cultivating hatred of Israel and Jews based on lies and innuendos,” Israeli-American conservative journalist Caroline Glick tweeted in response to the interview.

It also further exposed the deepening rift between traditional conservatives and the openly bigoted alt-right, threatening to tear apart an already uneasy alliance holding the right-wing coalition together.

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While much of the newfound animosity relates to Israel, it also boils down to Carlson’s role in a long-simmering feud between two of conservative media’s most popular figures: far-right provocateur Candace Owens and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro.

As an Orthodox Jew who fervently backs the Israeli government, Shapiro quickly took issue with Carlson’s stance on the war in Gaza. Just days after the Hamas attacks, Carlson hosted former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who largely mimics the ex-Fox host’s isolationist foreign policy and attributed ongoing military support for Israel to “financial and corrupting influences.” Carlson, meanwhile, objected to selective moral outrage over the attacks while calling for more attention to American drug overdose deaths.

“When it comes to comparing the Holocaust-level evil we just saw in Kfar Aza with people overdosing on the streets of Philadelphia, I have some moral questions. I do,” Shapiro reacted at the time, accusing Carlson of “moral blindness” and “downplaying” the Oct. 7 attacks.

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