Don Lemon

Look, is this a distraction?

And also, why is this even important today?

Well, I mean, this should go in the time capsule because it's such a perfect distillation of the madness of the era, the age of the whack job.

This is the president of the United States and

Really, what you're seeing is a is a version of the fight that played out on The Apprentice between Meatloaf and Gary Busey and Trump and Little John, if I remember correctly.

You know, these people, all of them are the break.

that's going to split MAGA inside the America First movement.

Tucker Carlson is a serious as a heart attack candidate for president in 2028 for the Republican nomination, which I think would be obviously a detestable candidacy and a profound moral danger to the world.

But if you watch

Tucker Carlson with Mike Huckabee in that interview, a couple of things jump out.

First one is the fact that Mike Huckabee is not a bright guy and how and how nutty

all of this Christian Zionism is.

But you can see the lane that Tucker Carlson would run for president in.

He'll run as an isolationist, as an America firster, an enthusiastic anti-Semite.

And you're beginning to see the contours of the candidacy that will challenge as a insurgency the MAGA orthodoxy.

You're going to have a primary that consists of J.D.

Vance and Marco Rubio.

And there'll be some drama and psychodrama in that.

But you're also going to have the outsider MAGA apostate lane.

And that is where Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and Candace Owens and Alex Jones are.