Tucker Carlson Fired, Paving the Way for Republicans

Fox News has suddenly announced that it has “parted ways” with Tucker Carlson, the biggest TV personality on Fox.

“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” a FOX News Media spokesperson said.

His last show was on Friday. Tonight, an interim program, “Fox News Tonight,” will air at 8 p.m. ET until a permanent replacement is named, Fox said.

This follows a circa $800 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems which had sued Fox, claiming several Fox hosts and guests had knowingly made false claims that Dominion’s voting machines had been rigged to steal the 2020 election.

Tucker’s show featured throughout that lawsuit, making his departure of political relevance, and indirectly to the crypto space too as the United States gears up for the 2024 presidential election.

Republicans Get Sophisticated

What the 2024 race would have been with Tucker as a loud mouth is anyone’s guess, but we can speculate that Ukraine as a weak point would have featured somewhat prominently for Republicans.

Tucker is the only TV personality of note to side with Russia in its war of aggression and invasion of Ukraine.

His most recent ‘achievement’ was to get Ron DeSantis into a slip-up by making a statement to Carlson that some read as suggesting the war is a mere territorial dispute.

DeSantis walked back those comments, but the pushing of that angle by Carlson on Fox would have made the job of Republicans a lot more difficult to assure Americans they can be trusted with securing America’s national interests.

His departure also puts the lid on Trump’s influence in the Republican party, a party that in the past few months especially has moved towards appearing to be a bit more sophisticated.

The capturing of the debate in Congress to put the focus on the debt ceiling is arguably a good move as it turns the priority to the economy, which is what most Americans care about first and foremost beyond war and peace matters.

On the latter, just how much Americans care is anyone’s guess, but we think probably on par with the economy where Ukraine is concerned, and a choice between the two arguably is not quite a choice.

With someone like Carlson however, that’s where Republicans could have been headed: a vote on the economy or a vote on Ukraine. Without him, the latter could potentially move towards not quite being up for a vote.

In which case, the Republicans may become real contenders for the highest office on earth, something that may well affect crypto in some ways.

Partisaning Bipartisanship

The crypto space does not want to participate in the mud show at the circus level, but the party line division at the Gensler hearing was a bit too blunt.

The stakes for many Americans that do crypto are potentially significant, and for the first time a crypto voting block may well develop, while an anti-crypto vote does not make any sense – certainly not as a priority as it may be for some cryptonians – because you can just not use crypto.

The choices of some in the Democratic party therefore, especially Elizabeth Warren which wants to build an anti-crypto army, may at the individual cryptonians level create some sort of partisanship within that wider bipartisan approach that crypto likes to take.

Both Ron DeSantis and the wider Republican party has made decent tunes where crypto is concerned. Florida is of course home to Miami and the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, is a cryptonian.

He is also a Republican, and as he is a cryptonian we presume a proper one. Unlike the former president Donald Trump who shocked his base by dissing bitcoin.

The tweet that lost the election? – we asked at the time in 2019. As an incredibly close race, the answer can only be maybe.

Not only for that, but many other reasons, including shots in Congress, we think Trump is unelectable at this point.

And the question is whether he is history too, despite announcing a candidacy, because it may have taken about three years but now when the Republican party has come to our attention, it has done so as you’d expect a somewhat competent Republican party to do.

Its fortunes naturally will depend on who exactly they elect as presidential candidate, but the departure of Carlson from the big microphone may allow for a better quality of candidates with less cloudy microphones.

It is also arguably the final closing chapter of what began in 2016, which coincides with when Carlson began the show on Fox too, as that whole voters rebellion – justified at the time to some extent – gives way to more normality as the demand to end the wars was met and that was fundamentally the point of that wave.

If therefore the Republicans continue to show more of what they have in the past few months, less of what we might consider as fluffy issues or cultural issues and more of the meaty ones, the hard ones on the economy and so on, the more they may become a real choice for voters.

The election has quite some way to go and we can’t predict what moves until then, so we can’t pre-empt our choice, but for this space the thought of Hester Pierce as SEC chair is extremely tempting, and therefore Joe Biden is at risk of moving towards being the weaker side if the Republicans continue to progress while Democrats fail to adapt.

If the choice is between Hester Pierce or Ukraine however, we would choose Ukraine and without much hesitation as defending a democracy under unjustified attack is worth more than some court cases from SEC.

But if the departure of Carlson means the Republican party moves towards seeing Ukraine as some 70% of Americans do, and that is strongly support it, then Biden and Democrats have real work to do or we will have an easier choice.

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