Well-established Republicans loudly applauded Senator Mitt Romney, once their failed presidential nominee, for asserting recently that the "presidency shapes the public character of the nation." But they now condemn Fox News host Tucker Carlson for suggesting that policy and law shape the public character of the nation. The rattled tone of their confused attacks on Carlson's popular response to Romney only underscores why Carlson has become a leader of the Right—and why so many others are scrambling to stay relevant.
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