laundryandtaxes:

Fox news is perhaps single handedly responsible for merging white nationalism and mainstream normie conservativism in a way that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Even 5 years ago it was fairly easy to find conservative news that was not necessarily racist, and today Tucker Carlson can just go on air and say that having dual language school programs in border towns constitutes an invasion and the moving of the border, and that white supremacy is straight up not real and nobody bats an eye at that. It is a very recent development. It used to be, pretty recently, that racist conservatives were conservative in public and racist in private. Today, your average regular conservative who genuinely has no issue with people of color is constantly inundated through mainstream right wing media with overtly white supremacist ideology such that it only makes sense that they would pick up some of what’s on their televisions all day. Partly this is just another development in a decades long cultural war that has certainly escalated on both sides (HuffPo writing that protestors who are worried about cops being able to ticket them for being outside of their homes are actually all white supremacists, consistent characterization of urban as liberal and hip and good and rural as conservative and backwards and bad, etc.) but there has been a very, very noticeable uptick here.