Tucker recently had an alternative historian on his show (Darryl Cooper, who runs the Martyr Made podcast) to expound on his view of the genesis of WWII, namely that Winston Churchill was a villainous figure. His twitter thread made after the show does a decent job of summarizing that point.
Obviously any suggestion that Hitler was not 100% Satan incensed the boomer right, provoking febrile emotional reactions like this one from Billboard Chris. The likes of Seth Dillon are also making their favorite call for "moral clarity," which I just read as "die for Israel" these days.
At the same time, a couple people made some decent counterpoints, namely that Hitler invaded a lot of countries at the time he was supposedly suing for peace. This is the problem with calling Churchill "the chief villain," which Cooper walked back into "a chief villain" on X.
Overall, the controversy is a good thing for the right. Tucker is softening up the ironclad boomer mythology of WWII - when you delve deeper into the motivations of the belligerents, you eventually delve into the question of, "so where did the Nazis get all this animus against Jews?" and "why is the Holocaust the greatest tragedy when 14 million Asians were killed by Japan and 20 million Ukrainians were killed in the Holodomor?" Also, blue laser eyes/red tint profile pics are gay.
It's the same reason most people would recoil if you were to tell most people you are reading Mein Kampf. They are trained to fear seeking alternative points of view. I don't know anything about this guy, and I at least hope if Carlson has him on there's more substance behind it then just wild conspiracy.
There's only something to fear from listening to others if your stance isn't the right one. If you're standing on solid ground, why be afraid?
There was plenty of substance, but he hurts himself by saying "well I don't want to go to into it because it will trigger people's ingrained responses", as well as "I like to be hyperbolic and cause trouble".
It's kind of an assinine game to play: "Let me tell you the truth of history, but oops! You're just not ready for it." It's a grifter move straight from "The Secret" from over a decade ago.
I mean, wouldn't it be the other way around? Wouldn't the grifter move from "The Secret" be straight from "Mein Kampf," instead?
No, because Hitler isn't trying to hide anything in Mein Kampf. He's not trying to lure the reader in. The third sentence is:
"German-Austria must return to the great German mother country, and not because of any economic considerations."
Subtlety is not Hitler's strong suit.
Straight lies are different. Hitler's much more comfortable with just full-on denying he's doing the thing he's doing while doing it and claiming that you're fucking crazy to think that the thing he's doing is the thing he's actively doing.
There's a famous speech he gave where he was making fun of FDR for claiming that Hitler had ambitions on Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia... etc. as a way of basically saying that FDR was a delusional conspiracy theorist for claiming that Hitler wanted to invade Czechoslovakia. ... Which he then proceeded to do a few years later.