Opinion: Tucker Carlson’s special is a terrifying lens into a new brand of conservative populism

The images flash past in quick succession: insurrectionists spilling into the Capitol, the shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt, horrific photographs of inmate torture at Abu Ghraib, FBI agents breaking down the door to a house, US soldiers breaking through the door of a compound. All of this unfolds as a talking head announces: “The domestic war on terror is here. It’s coming after half the country.”

The images flash past in quick succession: insurrectionists spilling into the Capitol, the shooting of protester Ashli Babbitt, horrific photographs of inmate torture at Abu Ghraib, FBI agents breaking down the door to a house, US soldiers breaking through the door of a compound. All of this unfolds as a talking head announces: “The domestic war on terror is here. It’s coming after half the country.”