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In this episode of New Ideal Live, Mike Mazza and Ziemowit Gowin discuss Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin, and Carlson’s attempt to undercut America by whitewashing life in Russia.

Among the topics covered:

Mainstream media’s reaction to Carlson’s interview;

How interviewing dictators gives them an undeserved sense of moral legitimacy;

How the interview only repeated Putin’s stale propaganda;

Why it’s absurd to think that the only way to be informed about events in Russia and Ukraine is to interview a dictator;

That Carlson’s motive is discredit America by whitewashing life in Russia;

Carlson’s equivocation between killing political opponents and genuine criminals;

The conservative rejection of abstract principles;

The descent of the new generation of conservative influencers into religion and authoritarianism.

This episode was broadcast live on February 22, 2024. Mentioned in the episode are “One Small Step Toward Dictatorship” by Onkar Ghate and “Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology” by Ben Bayer and Elan Journo.

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