Jim Power

And, you know, there is a sort of a view.

Well, sorry, there's two views on this.

One view, when Tucker fell out with Trump, as did a number of the other strong MAGA supporters over the last couple of months, they've fallen out with him.

Is this the end of MAGA?

In fact, the contrary view is that actually this could be the makings of MAGA, that Trump will become irrelevant shortly and that a new revitalized MAGA movement will emerge driven by people like Tucker Carlson.

And that is an even more scary prospect, I guess, than what we've seen from Trump.

So I think that's an interesting one.

And the midterms would be really interesting in November and the next presidential election, obviously even more interesting.

But how do you come down on that?

Do you think Carson is actually trying to regenerate the MAGA movement in the way that they originally envisaged it?

Okay.

A lot of interesting reflections from Tucker Carlson in that interview, you know, stating the obvious by saying that Trump is not very well informed on many matters and he's proudly ignorant on many matters, but that he is smart in ways that matter politically.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was arguing.

I think Carlson

Yeah, Carlson though is bemused by the fact that he went into Iran against his will and that he was more a hostage than a decision maker.

And that does go back to the point you raised earlier about why is he a hostage?

What does Netanyahu have over him?

That's a really interesting question.

And history might provide some answers to that, but we ain't going to find out for the foreseeable, I think.

Well, this was a long weekend in Ireland, and so I wasn't working yesterday.